plural of temperament

A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting. / A tendency to become irritable or angry.

plural of tempera

A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques. / (countable) A painting done in this medium.

plural of artistic temperament

(euphemistic) A disposition towards obsession and extremes of emotion, especially depression and anger.

A variety of tempera painting technique in which oil is added to the egg yolk-pigment mixture.

A fair and open-minded approach to the law and a patient and courteous treatment of the parties to a case on the part of a judge.

(music theory) A tuning system in which every interval (as a ratio of frequencies) is some exactly positive integral power of some smallest, other than the unison, base interval. In particular: