quale

noun

A property, such as whiteness, considered independently from things having the property.

A Middle English form of quail.

noun

A plague; murrain.

noun

A Middle English dialectal form of whale.

noun

An object named or considered as having a quality.

noun

Specifically In psychology, in the phrases spatial quale, quote of spatiality, the irreducible element or attribute of spaciousness, bidimensional, tridimensional, or indefinite, posited by nativistic theories of space-perception for some or all sensations.

noun

A nativistic theory of space perception. See quale, 2.

noun

A property considered separately from a thing having that property.