Attribute:
n. at·tri·bute (ăt'rə-byūt')
A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office: Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.
Grammar. A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.
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Whether those attributes are positive or negative depends on what you're referring to?
What are positive attributes?
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Attributes about a person.
What are characteristics about people that you like and admire?
Honesty?
Others?
Honesty?
Others?