qualification

noun

1 a professional teaching qualification | qualification for the pension was to be determined by a committee:

certificate, diploma, degree, license, document, warrant;

eligibility, acceptability, adequacy, suitableness, suitability, preparedness, fitness;

proficiency, skill, ability, quality, skillfulness, adeptness, capability, capacity, aptitude.

2 I have difficulty in accepting that submission without some qualification:

modification, limitation, restriction, reservation, stipulation, allowance, adaptation, alteration, adjustment, amendment, revision, refinement, moderation, tempering, softening, lessening, reduction, mitigation;

condition, proviso, provision, caveat, rider.