temperament
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- n your usual mood
- n excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
- n an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
- Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament.
- Obama: Jeff Kowalsky EPA; McCain: Brian Snydeer But both John McCain and Barack Obama insist that there are things a campaign can't tell you about the temperament of an aspiring .
- Any parent can tell you that each child comes from the womb with an individual temperament that seems preloaded at the factory.