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| n. (attribute) | 1. disposition, temperament | your usual mood.; "he has a happy disposition" |
| ~ aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness, loneliness | a disposition toward being alone. |
| ~ nature | the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions.; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ physicality, animalism | preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites. |
| ~ bloodthirstiness, bloodiness | a disposition to shed blood. |
| ~ heart, spirit | an inclination or tendency of a certain kind.; "he had a change of heart" |
| ~ nervousness | a sensitive or highly strung temperament. |
| ~ esprit de corps, team spirit, morale | the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed. |
| ~ moodiness | having temperamental and changeable moods. |
| ~ blood | temperament or disposition.; "a person of hot blood" |
| ~ cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom.; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" |
| ~ uncheerfulness | not conducive to cheer or good spirits. |
| ~ perfectionism | a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable.; "his perfectionism seemed excessive to his students" |
| ~ permissiveness, tolerance | a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior. |
| ~ unpermissiveness, restrictiveness | a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits. |
| ~ good nature | a cheerful, obliging disposition. |
| ~ agreeability, agreeableness | a temperamental disposition to be agreeable. |
| ~ ill nature | a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition. |
| ~ disagreeableness | an ill-tempered and offensive disposition. |
| ~ willingness | cheerful compliance.; "he expressed his willingness to help" |
| ~ involuntariness, unwillingness | the trait of being unwilling.; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton" |
| ~ friendliness | a friendly disposition. |
| ~ unsociability, unsociableness | an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship. |
| ~ unfriendliness | an unfriendly disposition. |
| ~ calm, calmness, composure, equanimity | steadiness of mind under stress.; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" |
| ~ discomposure | a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure. |
| ~ optimism | a general disposition to expect the best in all things. |
| ~ pessimism | a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things. |
| ~ epicurism | the disposition and habits of an epicure. |
| ~ gourmandism | the disposition and habits of a gourmand. |
| n. (act) | 2. disposal, disposition | the act or means of getting rid of something. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ appointment | (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment.; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment" |
| ~ comb-out | the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people.; "the department got a good comb-out" |
| ~ giving | disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return.; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving" |
| ~ abandonment | the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away. |
| ~ mine disposal | the disposal of explosive mines. |
| ~ sewage disposal | the disposal of sewage. |
| ~ lending, loaning | disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. disposition, inclination, tendency | an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" |
| ~ attitude, mental attitude | a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.; "he had the attitude that work was fun" |
| ~ direction | a general course along which something has a tendency to develop.; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm" |
| ~ trend, drift, movement | a general tendency to change (as of opinion).; "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" |
| ~ call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course.; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call" |
| ~ denominationalism | the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations. |
| ~ devices | an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.; "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices" |
| ~ sympathy, understanding | an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion.; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" |
| ~ favoritism, favouritism | an inclination to favor some person or group. |
| ~ proclivity, leaning, propensity | a natural inclination.; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" |
| ~ bent, set | a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way.; "the set of his mind was obvious" |
| ~ literalism | a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense. |
| ~ perseveration | the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it. |
| ~ predisposition | an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way. |
| ~ favour, favor | an inclination to approve.; "that style is in favor this season" |
| ~ dislike, disfavor, disfavour, disapproval | an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group. |
| ~ partisanship, partiality | an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives. |
| ~ impartiality, nonpartisanship | an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. disposition | a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing.; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture" |
| ~ property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" |
| ~ aptness, propensity | a disposition to behave in a certain way.; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" |
| ~ mordacity | a disposition to biting. |
| ~ predisposition | a disposition in advance to react in a particular way. |
| ~ proneness | being disposed to do something.; "accident proneness" |
| ~ separatism | a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists.; "separatism is a serious problem in Quebec"; "demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education" |
| ~ tendency, inclination | a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect.; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" |
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