Disposition

[dɪspə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪspə'zɪʃən]

Definition

(noun.) your usual mood; 'he has a happy disposition'.

(noun.) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; 'a swelling with a disposition to rupture'.

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Definition

(n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

(n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

(n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

(n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

(n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

(n.) Mood; humor.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Disposing, arranging, arrangement, classification, grouping.[2]. Management, regulation, control, direction, ordering, adjustment, disposure, disposal.[3]. Tendency, liability, proneness, aptness, adaptation.[4]. Temper, inclination, predisposition, propensity, humor, bent, bias, turn.[5]. Dispensation, distribution, bestowment.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See DISPOSE]

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Definition

n. arrangement: plan for disposing one's property &c.: natural tendency: temper: (N.T.) ministration: (Scots law) a giving over to another = conveyance or assignment in Eng. phraseology—often 'disposition and settlement ' a deed for the disposal of a man's property at his death.—adjs. Disposi′tional; Disposi′tioned; Dispos′itive.—adv. Dispos′itively.—ns. Dispos′itor a planet that disposes or controls another; Dispō′sure (obs.) disposal arrangement: disposition.

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