Humor vs Temperament - What's the difference?
humor | temperament |
* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
(obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
a tendency to become irritable or angry
(music) the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key
Temperament is a synonym of humor.
As nouns the difference between humor and temperament
is that humor is an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en while temperament is a moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.As a verb humor
is an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en.humor
English
Noun
(en noun)- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
Verb
(en verb)- I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
