as in dispositions
one's characteristic attitude or mood
looking for a dog with a sweet temperament
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Recent Examples of temperaments
But taken together, the movies demonstrate Linklater’s interest in probing creative temperaments, including his own.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Pups with excitable and reactive temperaments were especially responsive to on-screen content, suggesting that many canines may interpret moving images much like real-world events.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Redford and Pollack seemed to have similar temperaments and priorities.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
The two men have bad hair and unpredictable temperaments, but beyond that the similarities dissipate quickly.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Pups with excitable and reactive temperaments were especially responsive to on-screen content, suggesting that many canines may interpret moving images much like real-world events.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Redford and Pollack seemed to have similar temperaments and priorities.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
The two men have bad hair and unpredictable temperaments, but beyond that the similarities dissipate quickly.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for temperaments
Noun
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However, because the animals' natural habitats share some overlap and both have similarly docile dispositions, zoos often group howlers and capybaras together.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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Involvement in structuring joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, activist takeover and defense, financing arrangements, and similar matters will all be considered.—
Liane Jackson,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When a conversation is heading in a negative direction, the goal should be to defuse tempers, not inflame.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
30 Oct. 2025
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By contrast, the ICE facility was a mess of overflowing dumpsters, loose body armor and crowd control munitions and a broken HVAC air conditioning system that raised both temperatures and tempers in the aging building.—
Keith Wilson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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The conversation seems to have marked a shift in the right’s attitudes about Fuentes.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Is that indicative of a telling contrast in attitudes?—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Temperaments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temperaments. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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