temperamentality

noun

temperamentality

noun

Etymology From temperamental + -ity.

1

Usually The state or condition of being temperamental.

  • As in Bunsen and other pumps which incline to temperamentality, slight differences of construction sometimes lead to large changes in efficiency.1925, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science:
  • It retained nothing of that temperamentality and unpredictability that characterize not only ordinary human action but also the activity of the "primitive"...2000, Ernst Cassirer, Steve G Lofts, The logic of the cultural sciences: five studies:

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