temperament
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/
The English word “temperament” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- A tendency to become irritable or angry.
- The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
- Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
- A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
- Any 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.
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- temperability
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- temperamental
- temperamentalism
- temperamentalist
- temperamentality
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