temperamentality
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From temperamental + -ity.
Noun
[edit]temperamentality (usually uncountable, plural temperamentalities)
- 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"...
Translations
[edit]the state or condition of being temperamental
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