Temperament vs. Personality — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Temperament and Personality
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Temperament
In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes. Some researchers point to association of temperament with formal dynamical features of behavior, such as energetic aspects, plasticity, sensitivity to specific reinforcers and emotionality.
Personality
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.
Temperament
A person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behaviour
She had an artistic temperament
Personality
The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character
She had a sunny personality that was very engaging
She has triumphed by sheer force of personality
Temperament
The adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as to fit the scale for use in different keys; in equal temperament, the octave consists of twelve equal semitones
This temperament became standard tuning for all the new organs
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Personality
A celebrity or famous person
An official opening by a famous personality
Temperament
The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person
A nervous temperament.
Personality
The quality or fact of being a person as distinct from a thing or animal.
Temperament
The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors.
Personality
Disparaging remarks about an individual.
Temperament
Excessive irritability or sensitiveness
An actor with too much temperament.
Personality
The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.
Temperament
(Music) See equal temperament.
Personality
The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal
A hyena with an assertive personality.
Temperament
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
Personality
The totality of qualities that distinguish a group, organization, or place
The personality of the business changed dramatically over the years.
Temperament
A tendency to become irritable or angry.
Personality
The collection of distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing
Won the election more on personality than on capability.
Temperament
(music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
Personality
The quality or condition of being a person.
Temperament
(psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
Personality
A person as the embodiment of distinctive traits of mind and behavior.
Temperament
(obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
Personality
A person of prominence or notoriety
Television personalities.
Temperament
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
Personality
The distinctive characteristics of a place or situation
Furnishings that give a room personality.
Temperament
Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament.
Personality
Personalities An offensive or disparaging personal remark
Let's not engage in personalities.
Temperament
Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament that can be found in things of this nature, so disputable on their side.
Personality
(of people) A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
The president has a unique personality.
Temperament
The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.
Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular assemblies.
Personality
(of inanimate or abstract things) A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
His writing has a lot of personality.
This functional concrete building lacks personality.
Temperament
Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Bodies are denominated "hot" and "cold" in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied.
Personality
An assumed role or manner of behavior.
In his final act, the comedian takes on a child's personality.
Temperament
A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C$ becoming identical with D$, and so on.
Personality
A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.
Johnny Carson was a respected television personality.
Temperament
The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
Personality
Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
The best contestant shows most personality.
Temperament
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Personality
Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
Indulgence in personalities
Temperament
Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
Personality
(legal) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons
Temperament
An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
Personality
That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.
Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.
Personality
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.
Sharp personalities were exchanged.
Personality
That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.
Personality
A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.
Personality
The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual;
Their different reactions reflected their very different personalities
It is his nature to help others
Personality
A person of considerable prominence;
She is a Hollywood personality
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