Usually means: Innate disposition influencing behavior and reactions.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word temperament:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. temperament: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. temperament: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. temperament: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. temperament: Collins English Dictionary
  5. temperament: Vocabulary.com
  6. Temperament, temperament: Wordnik
  7. temperament: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. temperament: Wiktionary
  9. temperament: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. temperament: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. temperament: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. temperament: Dictionary.com
  13. temperament: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. temperament: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Temperament (music), Temperament: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Temperament: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. temperament: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. temperament: Rhymezone
  19. Temperament (nt), temperament, temperament, temperament (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. temperament: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. temperament: Free Dictionary
  22. temperament: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. temperament: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. temperament: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. temperament: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. temperament: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. temperament: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. temperament: Medical dictionary
  7. Temperament: Brain Injury

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. temperament: The Folk File
  2. Temperament: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See temperaments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
noun:  A tendency to become irritable or angry.
noun:  (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
noun:  (psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
noun:  (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
noun:  (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.

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