English-Dutch translations for temperament

• temperament
  Onze reacties – nu en in het verleden – zijn afhankelijk van ons temperament en van onze inzet. Our response depends, and has depended, on our temperaments and on our commitments.
  Deze twee personen hebben in de jaren vijftig intens samengewerkt, ondanks hun sterk uiteenlopende culturele achtergrond en temperament. These two men, who were so different in terms of culture and temperament, worked together throughout the 1950s.
  Misschien staat hij met zijn radicaal Italiaans temperament wat argwanender tegenover de idee van een compromis dan wij, pragmatische Britten. Perhaps to his Italian radical temperament the idea of compromise is one that is a little more suspicious than it is to the pragmatic British.

Definition of temperament

• A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions
• A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
• The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key

Related words

• temperamental
• temperamentality
• equal temperament
• just temperament