temperament

1. tells us about:

   • willing - disposed or inclined toward
   • unwilling - not disposed or inclined toward
   is a type of: nature - the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
   subtypes:

   • 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
2. is a type of: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality
3. is a type of: adjustment, readjustment, registration - the act of adjusting something to match a standard
   subtypes: equal temperament - the division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones

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