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Temperamental vs Temperamentality - What's the difference?

temperamental | temperamentality |

As an adjective temperamental

is (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament.

As a noun temperamentality is

the state or condition of being temperamental.

temperamental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (notcomp) of, related to, or caused by temperament
  • subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.

    • Derived terms

    * temperamentally

    temperamentality

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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"...