temperamentality

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Etymology[edit]

temperamental +‎ -ity

Noun[edit]

temperamentality (usually uncountable, plural temperamentalities)

  1. The state or condition of being temperamental.
    • 1925, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science:
      As in Bunsen and other pumps which incline to temperamentality, slight differences of construction sometimes lead to large changes in efficiency.
    • 2000, Ernst Cassirer, Steve G Lofts, The logic of the cultural sciences: five studies:
      It retained nothing of that temperamentality and unpredictability that characterize not only ordinary human action but also the activity of the "primitive"...

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