temperament

Meanings

Plural: temperaments

Noun

• your usual mood
• 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
• 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.

Synonyms

disposition