Definition of "temperaments" [temperaments]

• Plural form of temperament. (noun)

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• "We just laugh at it -- most of all when he stuffs up his ears and repeats to himself what he calls temperaments and conditions and conceptions and impressions, and a lot more like that."
• "The violent haste, pressure and instance of newspaper routine, purgatorial to some temperaments, is a genuine stimulus to others — particularly if they are able, as in the case of the columnist, to fall back upon outside contributors in their intervals of pessimism or sloth."
• "(Keirsey, who has written a lot about the four core "temperaments" -- NT, NF, SJ and SP - also notes that SP's often have a "folksy" way of speaking -- dropping g's from the ends of "ing" words, not standing on ceremony, occasionally making malapropisms.)"