Disposition vs. Temperament

Disposition and Temperament Definitions
Disposition
One's usual mood; temperament
A sweet disposition.
Temperament
The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person
A nervous temperament.
Disposition
A habitual inclination; a tendency
A disposition to disagree.
Temperament
The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors.
Disposition
A physical property or tendency
A swelling with a disposition to rupture.
Temperament
Excessive irritability or sensitiveness
An actor with too much temperament.
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Disposition
Arrangement, positioning, or distribution
A cheerful disposition of colors and textures.
A convoy oriented into a north-south disposition.
Temperament
(Music) See equal temperament.
Disposition
An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.
Temperament
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
Disposition
The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose
The funds that were put at her disposition.
Temperament
A tendency to become irritable or angry.
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Disposition
The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:
Temperament
(music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
Disposition
Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:
Temperament
(psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
Disposition
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
I have little disposition now to do as you say.
Salt has a disposition to dissolve in water.
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.
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Disposition
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
She has a sunny disposition.
He has such a foul disposition.
Temperament
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
Disposition
To remove or place in a different position.
Temperament
Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament.
Disposition
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
Temperament
Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament that can be found in things of this nature, so disputable on their side.
Disposition
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.
Temperament
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.
Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular assemblies.
Disposition
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.
Temperament
Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Bodies are denominated "hot" and "cold" in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied.
Disposition
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
How stands your disposition to be married?
Temperament
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.
Disposition
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
Temperament
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.
Disposition
Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.
Temperament
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Disposition
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Temperament
Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
Disposition
The act or means of getting rid of something
Temperament
An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
Disposition
An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
He had an inclination to give up too easily
A tendency to be too strict
Disposition
A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
A swelling with a disposition to rupture