English-French translations for temperament

• humeur
• tempérament
  Nous réagissons et nous avons tous réagi en fonction de notre tempérament et de nos engagements. Our response depends, and has depended, on our temperaments and on our commitments.
  J'espère que, de son côté, il ne doutait pas que mon tempérament ne m'empêchait pas de faire preuve de doigté. I hope that on his part he was not questioning whether my temperament would prevent me from being diplomatic.
  Ces deux hommes, si différents en termes de culture et de tempérament, ont travaillé ensemble tout au long des années 1950. These two men, who were so different in terms of culture and temperament, worked together throughout the 1950s.

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