Qualitative vs. qualitive

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Qualitative is the standard form of the adjective meaning of or relating to quality (not to be confused with quantitative). A few dictionaries list qualitive as an accepted variant of qualitative, but this is not borne out in practice. Most, if not all, edited publications prefer qualitative.

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