temperament
noun
the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
temperaments
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pluralof temperament.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"They all had quite different temperaments for different points in the film," she noted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
Their backgrounds and temperaments could hardly be more different, yet both sense in each other a missing piece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
NOTE: Historically, there has been some confusion as to whether or not well temperament and equal temperament are the same thing, possibly because well temperaments were sometimes referred to at the time as "equal temperament."
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
