Feature
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An important or main item. A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. One of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.; see features). A beneficial capability of a piece of software. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context. To star, to contain.
Example sentence: The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Characteristic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a distinguishable feature of a person or thingthe integer part of a logarithmthe distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
Example sentence: Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.