Personality vs. Temper — What's the Difference?

Personality is defined as the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed upon definition of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological interactions with one's environment.

To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character

To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading

A celebrity or famous person

To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.

The quality or fact of being a person as distinct from a thing or animal.

To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen

Disparaging remarks about an individual.

(Music) To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament.

The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.

To be or become tempered.

The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal

A state of mind or emotion; disposition

The totality of qualities that distinguish a group, organization, or place

Calmness of mind or emotions; composure

The collection of distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing

A tendency to become easily angry or irritable

The quality or condition of being a person.

Anger; rage

A person as the embodiment of distinctive traits of mind and behavior.

A characteristic general quality; tone

A person of prominence or notoriety

The condition of being tempered.

The distinctive characteristics of a place or situation

The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.

Personalities An offensive or disparaging personal remark

A modifying substance or agent added to something else.

(of people) A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.

(Archaic) A middle course between extremes; a mean.

(of inanimate or abstract things) A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.

A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

An assumed role or manner of behavior.

State of mind; mood.

A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.

A tendency to become angry.

Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.

Anger; a fit of anger.

Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

(legal) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons

(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities.

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual;

Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

A person of considerable prominence;

To moderate or control.

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

(cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.

To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

To govern; to manage.

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.

To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.

To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

To govern; to manage.

To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.

To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.

Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.

Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; - in a reproachful sense.

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

A sudden outburst of anger;

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;

The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

Toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling;

Harden by reheating and cooling in oil;

Adjust the pitch (of pianos)

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;

Restrain or temper