attribute vs quality

attribute

noun
  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

  • An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention. 

  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

verb
  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. 

quality

noun
  • Something that differentiates a thing or person. 

  • The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. 

  • A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content. 

  • Level of excellence. 

  • The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. 

  • In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. 

adj
  • Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality. 

How often have the words attribute and quality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )