temperament
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt//
- United Kingdom//ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt//
- United Kingdom//ˈtɛm.pə.mənt//
- United States//ˈtɛm.pɚ.ə.mənt//
- United States//ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt//
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
noun
- 1
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress.
- 2
A tendency to become irritable or angry.
- 3
The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
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obsoleteA moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
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obsoleteAny state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.
Forms
- plural
- temperaments
temperament · A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
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