disposition
Other forms: dispositions
Someone's disposition is their mood or general attitude about life. If your friend woke up on the wrong side of the bed, tell her that she might need a disposition makeover.
Disposition means the positive or negative way a person views the world. In contrast, your character is determined by your inner moral values, and your personality reflects what you're like as an individual. An animal with an excellent disposition is friendly towards people. If you are cheerful, you're often said to have a sunny disposition. Disposition can also mean "getting rid of something," so cleaning your room might involve the disposition of empty pizza boxes and soda cans.
Definitions of disposition
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your usual mood“he has a happy disposition”
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synonyms:
temperament
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aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
a disposition toward being alone
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animalism, physicality
preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
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bloodiness, bloodthirstiness
a disposition to shed blood
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heart, spirit
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
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nervousness
a sensitive or highly strung temperament
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esprit de corps, morale, team spirit
the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
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moodiness
having temperamental and changeable moods
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blood
temperament or disposition
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perfectionism
a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable
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permissiveness, tolerance
a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
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restrictiveness, unpermissiveness
a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
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good nature
a cheerful, obliging disposition
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agreeability, agreeableness
a temperamental disposition to be agreeable
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ill nature
a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition
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disagreeableness
an ill-tempered and offensive disposition
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willingness
cheerful compliance
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involuntariness, unwillingness
the trait of being unwilling
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friendliness
a friendly disposition
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unsociability, unsociableness
an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship
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unfriendliness
an unfriendly disposition
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calm, calmness, composure, equanimity
steadiness of mind under stress
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discomposure
a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure
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optimism
a general disposition to expect the best in all things
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pessimism
a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
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epicurism
the disposition and habits of an epicure
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gourmandism
the disposition and habits of a gourmand
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introversion
(psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings
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friendlessness
being without friends
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reclusiveness
a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation
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queasiness, restlessness, uneasiness
inability to rest or relax or be still
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restiveness, skittishness
characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
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acceptance, sufferance, toleration
a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
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indulgence, lenience, leniency
a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
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overtolerance
too much permissiveness
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sternness, strictness
uncompromising resolution
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good will, goodwill, grace
a disposition to kindness and compassion
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forbearance, longanimity, patience
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
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easygoingness
being without worry or concern
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risibility
a disposition to laugh
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complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
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crabbedness, crabbiness, crossness
a disposition to be ill-tempered
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contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness
a fussy and eccentric disposition
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moroseness, sourness, sulkiness, sullenness
a sullen moody resentful disposition
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biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
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impatience
a dislike of anything that causes delay
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shrewishness
a nature given to nagging or scolding
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asperity, sharpness
harshness of manner
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acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness
a rough and bitter manner
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aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity
a natural disposition to be hostile
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contentiousness, quarrelsomeness
an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious
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eagerness, forwardness, readiness, zeal
prompt willingness
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openness, receptiveness, receptivity
willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
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wholeheartedness
undivided commitment or unreserved enthusiasm
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disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance
a certain degree of unwillingness
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resistance
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
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affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality
a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)
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amicability, amicableness
having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness
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closeness, familiarity, intimacy
close or warm friendship
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accessibility, approachability
the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with
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congeniality
a congenial disposition
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amity, cordiality
a cordial disposition
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good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness, neighbourliness
a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
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hospitableness
having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining
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aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness
a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
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closeness, secretiveness
characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
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hostility, ill will
a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
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aggression
a disposition to behave aggressively
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misanthropy
a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people
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uncongeniality
a disposition not to be congenial
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unneighborliness
an unneighborly disposition
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inhospitableness
having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition
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helpfulness, kindliness
friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition
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aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid
great coolness and composure under strain
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placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity
a disposition free from stress or emotion
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disquiet, unease, uneasiness
the trait of seeming ill at ease
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fluster, perturbation
a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset
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affirmativeness
the agreeable quality of one who assents
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nature
the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
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a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing“a swelling with a disposition to rupture”
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aptness, propensity
a disposition to behave in a certain way
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mordacity
a disposition to biting
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predisposition
a disposition in advance to react in a particular way
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proneness
being disposed to do something
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separatism
a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists
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inclination, tendency
a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
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heterosis, hybrid vigor
(genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
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buoyancy
the tendency to float in water or other liquid
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electronegativity, negativity
(chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond
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stainability
(cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes
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desire
an inclination to want things
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property
a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
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an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
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synonyms:
inclination, tendency
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direction
a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
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drift, movement, trend
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
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Call
a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
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denominationalism
the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations
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devices
an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'
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sympathy, understanding
an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
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favoritism, favouritism
an inclination to favor some person or group
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leaning, proclivity, propensity
a natural inclination
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bent, set
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
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literalism
a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense
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perseveration
(psychology) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it
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predisposition
an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
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favor, favour
an inclination to approve
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disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislike
an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
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partiality, partisanship
an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
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impartiality, nonpartisanship
an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally
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tenor
a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
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evolutionary trend
a general direction of evolutionary change
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gravitation
a figurative movement toward some attraction
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orientation, predilection, preference
a predisposition in favor of something
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doghouse
an idiomatic term for being in disfavor
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reprobation
severe disapproval
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anthropocentricity, anthropocentrism
an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values
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ethnocentrism
belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
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Eurocentrism
belief in the preeminence of Europe and the Europeans
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bias, preconception, prejudice
a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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tilt
a slight but noticeable partiality
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localism, provincialism, sectionalism
a partiality for some particular place
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unfairness
partiality that is not fair or equitable
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disinterestedness
freedom from bias or from selfish motives
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candor, candour, fair-mindedness, fairness
ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty
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attitude, mental attitude
a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
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the act or means of getting rid of something
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synonyms:
disposal
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appointment
(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment
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comb-out
the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people
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giving
disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return
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abandonment
the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
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mine disposal
the disposal of explosive mines
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sewage disposal
the disposal of sewage
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lending, loaning
disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned
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discard, throwing away
getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
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discard
(cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
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minesweeping
the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines
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usury
the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen
Pronunciation
US
/ˈdɪspəˌzɪʃən/
UK
/dɪspəˈzɪʃɪn/
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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Oyuna of the Kerait tribe recounts how she pursued her dream of racing across the Mongolian steppes as a youth despite being crippled by a horse.
Society and Solitude
In this collection of twelve essays, the leader of New England's transcendentalist movement shares his philosophical ideas on different aspects of mid-nineteenth-century life. Read the full text here.
It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit
When twelve-year-old beach-loving Ohioan Eddie Gordon Holloway runs out of clean clothes, he must finally do his laundry in the basement, where suddenly, the lights go dark.
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