qualification

The act of qualifying or the condition of being qualified.

A quality, ability, or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task.

A condition or circumstance that must be met or complied with.

A restriction or modification.

The act of qualifying, or the state of being qualified, by change or modification; specifically, adaptation; fitness.

A quality adapting a person or thing to particular circumstances, uses, or ends.

That which qualifies a person for or renders him admissible to or acceptable for a place, an office, or an employment: any natural or acquired quality, property, or possession which secures a right to exercise any function, privilege, etc.; specifically, legal power or ability: as, the qualifications of an elector.

In logic, the attaching of quality, or the distinction of affirmative and negative, to a term.

A qualifying—that is, partially negativing or extenuating—circumstance; modification; restriction; limitation; allowance; abatement: as, to assert something without any qualification.

Appeasement; pacification.