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Type Words
Synonyms disposition
Type of nature
Has types calmness, composure, disagreeableness, discomposure, epicurism, equanimity, esprit de corps, friendliness, good nature, gourmandism, heart, ill nature, involuntariness, loneliness, lonesomeness, moodiness, morale, nervousness, optimism, perfectionism, permissiveness, pessimism, physicality, restrictiveness, solitariness, spirit, unfriendliness, agreeability, agreeableness, aloneness, animalism, blood, bloodiness, bloodthirstiness, calm, unpermissiveness, unsociability, unsociableness, unwillingness, willingness, team spirit, tolerance
Derivation temperamental
Type Words
Type of adjustment, readjustment, registration
Has types equal temperament
Type Words
Type of emotionality, emotionalism
Derivation temperamental

Examples of temperament

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The three boys, though different in temperament, bond in their shared curiosity.
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Experience, temperament and long commitment to the district make her the choice.
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Others thought he had the swagger and fiery temperament that fuels many closers.
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In keeping with the breed's temperament, Oliver was the picture of tranquillity.
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Meanwhile his temperament, always perhaps his weak spot, has been found wanting.
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Decide on a career that revolves around your passions and fits your temperament.
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A challenge facing winemakers is the ever-changing temperament of Mother Nature.
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Many people because of temperament or low intelligence can only do menial work.
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Chase him down, don't let him have any space and his temperament starts to waver.
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  • Disposition: your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
  • Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
  • An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
  • (temperamental) relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
  • In psychology, temperament refers to those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned. ...
  • In musical tuning, a temperament is a system of tuning which slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation in order to meet other requirements of the system.
  • (Temperamental (Everything but the Girl album)) Temperamental is a 1999 album by Everything but the Girl, their tenth studio release.
  • 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; ...
  • (temperamental) of, related to, or caused by temperament; subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and ...