ADJ [usually ADJ n]质量上的;质的;品质的;性质的Qualitative means relating to the nature or stardand of something, rather than to its quantity. 质量上的;质的;品质的;性质的 [formal]
There are qualitative differences in the way children and adults think.
孩子和成年人的思维方式有质的不同。
That's the whole difference between quantitative and qualitative research.
那就是定量研究和定性研究之间的重大差别。
qualitatively
The new media are unlikely to prove qualitatively different from the old.