Designation and Quality

Designation

Designation noun - A word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known.

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Quality and designation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quality" instead a noun "Designation".

Quality noun - Degree of excellence.

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Designation and quality are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Designation" instead a noun "Quality".

human	human designation	human quality
special	special designation	special quality
similar	similar designation	similar quality
original	original designation	original quality
Other adjectives: actual, real, bad, important, unique, general, different.

The designation is not a description of the quality of the work, but rather the amount of fantasy, and the number of fantastic or otherwise supernatural elements, it contains, which can be rather difficult to measure.

Source: Low Fantasy
There's even a violet topaz that gets lumped in with the designation of imperial (high quality orange or yellow whose color changes slightly depending on the viewing angle), but that's even rarer than natural blue topaz.

Source: Color-Coded Stones

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