Disposition vs. Temperament

One's usual mood; temperament

The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person

A habitual inclination; a tendency

The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors.

A physical property or tendency

Excessive irritability or sensitiveness

Arrangement, positioning, or distribution

(Music) See equal temperament.

An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.

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

The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose

A tendency to become irritable or angry.

The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:

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

Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:

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

Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.

(obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.

Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.

To remove or place in a different position.

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C$ becoming identical with D$, and so on.

Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.

Mood; humor.

Your usual mood;

Your usual mood;

Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)

The act or means of getting rid of something

An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys

An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;

A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;