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Word: temperament (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a person's normal 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
  • 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.

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