temperament
Noun
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Your usual mood (synset 104630969)
"he has a happy disposition"is a type of: nature - the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactionssubtypes:
- aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness - a disposition toward being alone
- animalism, physicality - preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
- bloodiness, bloodthirstiness - a disposition to shed blood
- heart, spirit - an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
- nervousness - a sensitive or highly strung temperament
- esprit de corps, morale, team spirit - the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
- moodiness - having temperamental and changeable moods
- blood - temperament or disposition
- perfectionism - a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable
- permissiveness, tolerance - a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
- restrictiveness, unpermissiveness - a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
- good nature - a cheerful, obliging disposition
- agreeability, agreeableness - a temperamental disposition to be agreeable
- ill nature - a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition
- disagreeableness - an ill-tempered and offensive disposition
- willingness - cheerful compliance
- involuntariness, unwillingness - the trait of being unwilling
- friendliness - a friendly disposition
- unsociability, unsociableness - an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship
- unfriendliness - an unfriendly disposition
- calm, calmness, composure, equanimity - steadiness of mind under stress
- discomposure - a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure
- optimism - a general disposition to expect the best in all things
- pessimism - a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
- epicurism - the disposition and habits of an epicure
- gourmandism - the disposition and habits of a gourmand
has:- cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine - the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- uncheerfulness - not conducive to cheer or good spirits
same as: disposition -
Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) (synset 104635823)
is a type of: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality
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An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys (synset 101002353)
is a type of: adjustment, readjustment, registration - the act of adjusting something to match a standardsubtypes: equal temperament - the division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones
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