temperament
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɛmpəɹəmənt/, /ˈtɛmpɹəmənt/, /ˈtɛmpəɹmənt/
temperament
- (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
- (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
- A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- A tendency to become irritable or angry.
- (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
- (psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
- French: tempérament
- German: Temperament, Charakter, Veranlagung
- Italian: temperamento, carattere
- Portuguese: temperamento, índole
- Russian: темпера́мент
- Spanish: temperamento
- German: Temperament
- Spanish: temperamento
- German: Stimmung
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