temperament

CEFRC1

/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A persons usual mood and way of behaving.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A tendency to become irritable or angry.

Examples

  • Nancy has a very lively and sweet temperament.

  • Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
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Citations
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.

  2. A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.

  3. Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.

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In context

  • If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascri...

  • If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]

  • President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.