- connected with the amount or number of something rather than with how good it is
- quantitative analysis/research
- There is no difference between the two in quantitative terms.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuantitative is used with these nouns:- analysis
- assessment
- change
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘having magnitude’): from medieval Latin quantitativus, from Latin quantitas (translating Greek posotēs), from quantus ‘how great, how much’.Definitions on the go
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