ALL meanings of temperament
tem·per·a·ment
T t - noun temperament person: character, disposition 1
- noun temperament animal: nature, character 1
- noun temperament the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition. 1
- noun temperament unusual personal attitude or nature as manifested by peculiarities of feeling, temper, action, etc., often with a disinclination to submit to conventional rules or restraints. 1
- noun temperament (old physiology) the combination of the four cardinal humors, the relative proportions of which were supposed to determine physical and mental constitution. 1
- noun temperament Music. the tuning of a keyboard instrument, as the piano, organ, or harpsichord, so that the instrument may be played in all keys without further tuning. a particular system of doing this. 1
- noun temperament Archaic. an act of tempering or moderating. 1
- noun temperament Archaic. climate. 1
- variable noun temperament Your temperament is your basic nature, especially as it is shown in the way that you react to situations or to other people. 0
- uncountable noun temperament Temperament is the tendency to behave in an uncontrolled, bad-tempered, or unreasonable way. 0
- noun temperament an individual's character, disposition, and tendencies as revealed in his reactions 0
- noun temperament excitability, moodiness, or anger, esp when displayed openly 0
- noun temperament the characteristic way an individual behaves, esp towards other people 0
- noun temperament an adjustment made to the frequency differences between notes on a keyboard instrument to allow modulation to other keys 0
- noun temperament any of several systems of such adjustment, such as just temperament, a system not practically possible on keyboard instruments, mean-tone temperament, a system giving an approximation to natural tuning, and equal temperament, the system commonly used in keyboard instruments, giving a scale based on an octave divided into twelve exactly equal semitones 0
- noun temperament the characteristic way an individual behaves, viewed as the result of the influence of the four humours (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) 0
- noun temperament compromise or adjustment 0
- noun temperament the act or an instance of tempering; proportionate mixture or balance of ingredients 0
- noun temperament in medieval physiology, any of the four conditions of body and mind, the sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric (or bilious), and melancholic temperaments, attributed to an excess of one of the four corresponding humors 0
- noun temperament one's customary frame of mind or natural disposition; nature 0
- noun temperament a nature that is excitable, moody, capricious, volatile, etc. 0
- noun temperament climate 0
- abbreviation TEMPERAMENT temperature 0
- noun temperament a system of adjustment of the intervals between the tones of an instrument of fixed intonation: it may be pure temperament, in which the intervals are set exactly according to theory, or equal temperament, as in a piano, in which the pitch of the tones is slightly adjusted to make them suitable for all keys 0