temperment
/ˈtɛm.pɚ.mənt/noun
temperment is a noun meaning “Misconstruction of temperament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-M-E-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of temperment is temperments.
What does temperment mean?
noun
- 1
Misconstruction of temperament.
What is disturbing to me is not the appearance per se but the attempt to cloak it as a non-political statement on judicial temperment. If judicial temperment were really the concern of the U.S. Attorney's office, they would provide the Comm
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce temperment?
- US /ˈtɛm.pɚ.mənt/
Temperment has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of temperment
- temperments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is temperment?
Temperment appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does temperment come from?
Perhaps influenced by analysis as temper + -ment. (Attested since the 1470s.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).