homebody, quantification, qualitative, occasion (CAUSE)

This Wild Girl’s a Homebody Now
By MELENA RYZIK
Lily Allen, with a new album, works on a grown-up image as well as nights on the town.

Lincoln Monuments

Reviews by WILLIAM SAFIRE

A guide to the deluge of books occasioned by the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.

It is important to observe that qualitative predication may involve quantification.

quality (CHARACTERISTIC)
noun [C]
a characteristic or feature of someone or something:
leadership qualities
He has a lot of good qualities but being organized isn't one of them.
[+ to infinitive] I don't think he has the right qualities to be a teacher.
This cheese has a rather rubbery quality to it (= it is like rubber).

qualitative
adjective FORMAL
relating to what something or someone is like:
There has been a qualitative change in the relationship between the public and the government.
Compare quantitative at quantity.

quan・ti・fy

━━ vt. …の量を定める［示す，量る］.
 quan・ti・fi・a・ble　━━ a. 量を定められる［示せる］, 数量化できる.
 quan・ti・fi・ca・tion
　━━ n. 量を定めること［示すこと］, 数量化.
 quan・ti・fi・er　━━ n. 【文法】数量詞.

occasion (CAUSE)

Verb [T] FORMALto cause something:

Her refusal occasioned a lot of trouble.
[+ two objects] The case occasioned the authorities a lot of worry/The authorities were occasioned a lot of worry by the case.


homebody
n., pl. -ies.
One whose interests center on the home.