temperament

It would have to suit Simon’s talents and temperament, while also allowing him to be completely unrecognizable.

I knew the baroness to be stingy, rigid, and mean—the perfect temperament to throw a well-run school into turmoil.

“As long as I’ve known him, he is by temperament a very cautious man,” the judge said.

Partisanship was in many ways alien to Cowley’s probing and genially learned critical temperament, which Mr. Howard describes as “Emersonian, humanistic, exploratory.”

What Roz loved most about herself was her peaceful temperament, and suddenly that had changed, forever.