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disposition

 
Noun disposition has 4 senses
  1. disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
    --1 is a kind of nature
    --1 has parts: cheerfulness, cheer; uncheerfulness
    --1 has particulars:
     solitariness; aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitude; animalism, physicality; heart, spirit; nervousness; esprit de corps, morale, team spirit; moodiness; blood; perfectionism; permissiveness, tolerance; unpermissiveness; good nature; agreeableness, agreeability; ill nature; disagreeableness; willingness; unwillingness; friendliness; unsociability, unsociableness; unfriendliness; composure, calm, calmness, equanimity; discomposure; optimism; pessimism; epicurism; gourmandism
  2. disposal, disposition - the act or means of getting rid of something
    --2 is a kind of deed, feat, effort, exploit
    --2 has particulars:
     appointment; comb-out; giving; abandonment; mine disposal; sewage disposal; lending, loaning
    Derived forms: verb dispose1, verb dispose2
  3. inclination, disposition, tendency - an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
    --3 is a kind of attitude, mental attitude
    --3 has particulars:
     direction; drift, trend, movement; Call; denominationalism; devices; sympathy, understanding; favoritism, favouritism; proclivity, propensity, leaning; bent, set; literalism; perseveration; predisposition; favor, favour; disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval; partiality, partisanship; impartiality, nonpartisanship
    Derived form: verb dispose3
  4. disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
    --4 is a kind of
    property
    --4 has particulars:
     aptness, propensity; mordacity; predisposition; proneness; separatism; tendency, inclination
disposer disposes disposess disposible disposing dispositif dispositin disposition disposition dispositioned dispositions dispositive disposotion dispossed off disposses dispossess dispossessed

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