Tradition vs Temperament - What's the difference?
tradition | temperament |
A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
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A commonly held system. (rfex)
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
* Fuller
(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
As nouns the difference between tradition and temperament
is that tradition is tradition while temperament is temperament, character.tradition
English
(wikipedia tradition)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}
- A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
Derived terms
* traditional * traditionally * traditionalismSynonyms
* (a commonly held system) doctrineVerb
(en verb)- The following story is traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.