TEMPERAMENT

Temperament

In psychology, temperament refers to those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned. A great many classificatory schemes for temperament have been developed; none, though, has achieved general consensus in academia.

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temperament

Noun

  1. A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
  2. Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
  3. a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
  4. a tendency to become irritable or angry
  5. the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key


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