Calm vs. Disposition — What's the Difference?

Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions

A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way that may be learned. The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind.

(of the weather) pleasantly free from wind

A person's inherent qualities of mind and character

The absence of strong emotions; calm feelings

The way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things

The absence of wind

The distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest

Make (someone) tranquil and quiet; soothe

The power to deal with something as one pleases

Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed

One's usual mood; temperament

Not excited or agitated; composed

A habitual inclination; a tendency

An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

A physical property or tendency

A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

Arrangement, positioning, or distribution

Tranquility or serenity

An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.

To make or become calm or quiet

The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:

(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:

(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.

Without wind or storm.

Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

To remove or place in a different position.

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

A period of time without wind.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

(transitive) To make calm.

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

(intransitive) To become calm.

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

Mood; humor.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

Your usual mood;

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

The act or means of getting rid of something

Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;

Steadiness of mind under stress;

A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;

Make calm or still;

Make steady;

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;

Not agitated; without losing self-possession;

Characterized by absence of emotional agitation;

(of weather) free from storm or wind;

Marked by freedom from agitation or excitement;