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temperament meaning in Sanskrit

प्रकृति prákṛti

/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/US/ˈtɛm.pɚ.ə.mənt/

temperament in Sanskrit: प्रकृति (prákṛti). In English, temperament means a person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.

Sanskrit words for temperament

temperament, the predominance of one of the humours at the time of generation
प्रकृति prákṛti

English meaning of temperament

  1. noun A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
  2. noun A tendency to become irritable or angry.
  3. noun The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
  4. noun Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.

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Questions about temperament in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of temperament in Sanskrit?
Temperament in Sanskrit is प्रकृति (prákṛti).
temperament इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Temperament: प्रकृति (prákṛti).
What does temperament mean in English?
Temperament means a person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “temperament”: प्रकृति. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: temperament (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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