temperament
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Noun
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- (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 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
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
Dutch
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temperament n. (plural temperamenten)
- (psychology) temperament: the usual mood of a person, or typical manner of thinking, behaving, and acting
- Oorspronkelijk waren in de Griekse oudheid de temperamenten de naam voor vier persoonlijkheidstypen: het sanguïnische, flegmatische, cholerische en melancholische temperament.[1]
- Originally, in Greek antiquity, the temperaments were the names of the four personality types: the sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholy temperaments.
- Oorspronkelijk waren in de Griekse oudheid de temperamenten de naam voor vier persoonlijkheidstypen: het sanguïnische, flegmatische, cholerische en melancholische temperament.[1]
- temperament: a tendency to become irritable or angry
- (music) temperament: a specific system of note pitches of a musical instrument
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