English▸ adjective relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality:
quantitative analysis.
Often contrasted with qualitative. ▪ denoting or relating to verse whose meter is based on the length of syllables, as in Latin, as opposed to the stress, as in English.
– ORIGIN late 16th century (in the sense ‘having magnitude or spatial extent’): from medieval Latin quantitativus, from Latin quantitas (see quantity).