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temperament

About 5.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
  2. noun A tendency to become irritable or angry.
  3. noun The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
  4. noun Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
  5. noun A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
  6. noun Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
  7. noun ↑ “temperament”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  8. noun ↑ “temperament”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Similar words

disposition mood personality temper nature character artist charm installment male

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Word family

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