Trait vs. Feature — What's the Difference?

A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person

Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.

A distinguishing feature, as of a person's character.

Often features The overall appearance of the face or its parts.

A morphological, physiological, or behavioral feature of an organism.

A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic

(Archaic) A short line or mark made with a writing or drawing implement.

A property of linguistic units or forms

An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that specify or combine to specify phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations.

(object-oriented) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

The main film presentation at a theater.

A stroke; a touch.

A long, narrative movie, typically lasting more than one hour.

A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

A special attraction at an entertainment.

A distinguishing feature of your personal nature

A prominent or special article, story, or department in a newspaper or periodical.

An item advertised or offered as particularly attractive or as an inducement

Outward appearance; form or shape.

Physical beauty.

To give special attention to; display, publicize, or make prominent.

To have or include as a prominent part or characteristic

To depict or outline the features of.

(Informal) To picture mentally; imagine

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

An important or main item.

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

(film) feature film

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

(transitive) To star, to contain.

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

To have features resembling.

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

A form; a shape.

A prominent aspect of something;

The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Have as a feature;

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;