English-Portuguese translations for temperament

• índole
• temperamento
  Espero que, pela sua parte, ele não estivesse a pensar que talvez o meu temperamento me impeça de ser diplomático. I hope that on his part he was not questioning whether my temperament would prevent me from being diplomatic.
  Reagimos agora, e todos nós reagimos no passado, em função do nosso temperamento e em função dos nossos compromissos. Our response depends, and has depended, on our temperaments and on our commitments.
  Estes dois homens, tão diferentes pela cultura e pelo temperamento, mantiveram uma colaboração ao longo da década de 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