temperament

Definition

A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Example Sentences

• "President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress."
• "If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]"