Temperament
noun
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting, often related to their mood or attitude.
Her cheerful temperament always brightens up the room.
Often appears as...
- even temperament
- cheerful temperament
noun
The ability of a substance, object, or system to maintain its properties or conditions under specific circumstances.
The temperament of the chemical changes in response to temperature.
Often appears as...
- temperature temperament
- steel temperament
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Technical
noun
A procedure of tuning a musical instrument to adjust the pitch.
Equal temperament is commonly used for tuning pianos.
Often appears as...
- equal temperament
- just temperament
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Technical
noun
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting, often related to their mood or attitude.
Her cheerful temperament always brightens up the room.
Often appears as...
- even temperament
- cheerful temperament
noun
The ability of a substance, object, or system to maintain its properties or conditions under specific circumstances.
The temperament of the chemical changes in response to temperature.
Often appears as...
- temperature temperament
- steel temperament
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A procedure of tuning a musical instrument to adjust the pitch.
Equal temperament is commonly used for tuning pianos.
Often appears as...
- equal temperament
- just temperament
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Mood Reflection
Temperament often reflects one's mood and is not just personality or attitude.
Despite the stress, she maintained a calm temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Born Traits
Some believe temperament is an inborn quality, not easily altered by experience.
He has a naturally sunny temperament, just like his mother.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavior Prediction
Understanding temperament can help predict how a person might behave in situations.
Her patient temperament suggested she would handle the crisis well.
Pro Tip 1/3Mood Reflection
Temperament often reflects one's mood and is not just personality or attitude.
Despite the stress, she maintained a calm temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Born Traits
Some believe temperament is an inborn quality, not easily altered by experience.
He has a naturally sunny temperament, just like his mother.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavior Prediction
Understanding temperament can help predict how a person might behave in situations.
Her patient temperament suggested she would handle the crisis well.
Pro Tip 1/3Mood Reflection
Temperament often reflects one's mood and is not just personality or attitude.
Despite the stress, she maintained a calm temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Born Traits
Some believe temperament is an inborn quality, not easily altered by experience.
He has a naturally sunny temperament, just like his mother.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavior Prediction
Understanding temperament can help predict how a person might behave in situations.
Her patient temperament suggested she would handle the crisis well.
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Puppy Mills PIPE National...
other professional breeders as people really don't know who to weed out and we really have to gain their trust the first thing I think that's very important is ask about the parents you wanted to see them you want to be able to touch them and pet them and see what her temperament is like I think it's
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What fear can teach us PIPE...
has a combination of two very different temperaments, the artistic and the scientific. A good reader has an artist's passion, a willingness to get caught up in the story, but just as importantly, the readers also needs the coolness of judgment of a scientist, which acts to temper and complicate
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Steven Pinker: Human...
There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense. As many people have told me over the years, anyone who's had more than one child knows that kids come into the world with certain temperaments and talents;
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What fear can teach us -...
much more than the other looked at from this angle there's becomes a story about reading the novelist glad ran a book off said that the best reader has a combination of two very different temperaments the artistic and the scientific a good reader has an artist's passion a
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A brief history of...
the human body and soul were controlled by four fluids, known as humors, and their balance directly influenced a person's health and temperament. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
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Builders of the Pyramids...
violence people who are buried until our symmetry are the workmen who died during the construction of building the fairness in we are able now for the first time to understand the delight of the welcome and open temperament the
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The Future Will Be...
And that sense of optimism is a perspective where we expect the world to yield a little bit more good than bad, to have a few more reasons to hope than to fear. And optimism definitely is not just a sunny temperament,
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Robots Hunting for Life...
People who are fit! People who are top in their fields! People who are experts! People who have a spirit of adventure! But I would say most critically, you need people who have the right temperament.
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Love and hormones PIPE...
youthful barato bravado daredevil extremes these are two very different personalities but they've got the same temperament that expressed by the dopamine system in the brain the second
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The Sex-Shifting Fish PIPE...
and with this comes a change in temperament
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Puppy Mills PIPE National...
other professional breeders as people really don't know who to weed out and we really have to gain their trust the first thing I think that's very important is ask about the parents you wanted to see them you want to be able to touch them and pet them and see what her temperament is like I think it's
Video examples
What fear can teach us PIPE...
has a combination of two very different temperaments, the artistic and the scientific. A good reader has an artist's passion, a willingness to get caught up in the story, but just as importantly, the readers also needs the coolness of judgment of a scientist, which acts to temper and complicate
Video examples
Steven Pinker: Human...
There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense. As many people have told me over the years, anyone who's had more than one child knows that kids come into the world with certain temperaments and talents;
Video examples
What fear can teach us -...
much more than the other looked at from this angle there's becomes a story about reading the novelist glad ran a book off said that the best reader has a combination of two very different temperaments the artistic and the scientific a good reader has an artist's passion a
Video examples
A brief history of...
the human body and soul were controlled by four fluids, known as humors, and their balance directly influenced a person's health and temperament. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
Video examples
Builders of the Pyramids...
violence people who are buried until our symmetry are the workmen who died during the construction of building the fairness in we are able now for the first time to understand the delight of the welcome and open temperament the
Video examples
The Future Will Be...
And that sense of optimism is a perspective where we expect the world to yield a little bit more good than bad, to have a few more reasons to hope than to fear. And optimism definitely is not just a sunny temperament,
Video examples
Robots Hunting for Life...
People who are fit! People who are top in their fields! People who are experts! People who have a spirit of adventure! But I would say most critically, you need people who have the right temperament.
Video examples
Love and hormones PIPE...
youthful barato bravado daredevil extremes these are two very different personalities but they've got the same temperament that expressed by the dopamine system in the brain the second
Video examples
The Sex-Shifting Fish PIPE...
and with this comes a change in temperament
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John Legend
American Musician
There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.
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John Ortberg
American Clergyman
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
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Glenn Close
American Actress
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
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Jon Katz
American Journalist
Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
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Hisham Matar
American Writer
I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
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Zane Grey
American Author
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Hans Hofmann
German Artist
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Henry Van Dyke
American Poet
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
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John Legend
American Musician
There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.
Quote examples
John Ortberg
American Clergyman
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
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Glenn Close
American Actress
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
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Jon Katz
American Journalist
Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
Quote examples
Hisham Matar
American Writer
I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.
Quote examples
Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
Quote examples
Zane Grey
American Author
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Quote examples
Hans Hofmann
German Artist
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Henry Van Dyke
American Poet
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
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