'Disposition' definitions:
Definition of 'disposition'
From: WordNet
noun
Your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" [syn: disposition, temperament]
noun
The act or means of getting rid of something [syn: disposal, disposition]
noun
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" [syn: inclination, disposition, tendency]
noun
A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
Definition of 'Disposition'
From: GCIDE
- Disposition \Dis`po*si"tion\, n. [F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone.]
- 1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. [1913 Webster]
- Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. --Acts vii. 53. [1913 Webster]
- The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. [1913 Webster]
- How stands your disposition to be married? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition." --Hallam. "He is of a very melancholy disposition." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. --Strype. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Mood; humor. [1913 Webster]
- As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. --Shak.
- Syn: Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- Disposition, Character, Temper. Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disposition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a thing for,
- abalienation,
- abandonment,
- abjuration,
- administration,
- affinity,
- alienation,
- allocation,
- allotment,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- animus,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- apportionment,
- approach,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- arrangement,
- array,
- arraying,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- attack,
- attitude,
- authority,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- battle array,
- being,
- bent,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bias,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- body-build,
- brand,
- calculation,
- cast,
- cession,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characteristics,
- charting,
- choice,
- civil government,
- claws,
- clearance,
- close formation,
- clutches,
- collation,
- collocation,
- command,
- command function,
- complexion,
- composition,
- conation,
- conatus,
- conception,
- concord,
- conduciveness,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- constituents,
- constitution,
- contrivance,
- control,
- controlling,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- crasis,
- decision,
- decision-making,
- deeding,
- delight,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- demise,
- deployment,
- deportation,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- design,
- desire,
- detachment,
- determination,
- device,
- dharma,
- diathesis,
- direction,
- disbursal,
- disbursement,
- discard,
- discarding,
- discipline,
- discretion,
- disjunction,
- dispensation,
- dispersion,
- disposal,
- distribution,
- dole,
- doling,
- doling out,
- dominion,
- dumping,
- eagerness,
- eccentricity,
- echelon,
- ejection,
- elimination,
- empery,
- empire,
- emplacement,
- enfeoffment,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- eradication,
- ethos,
- exchange,
- executive function,
- exile,
- expatriation,
- expulsion,
- fancy,
- feeling for,
- fiber,
- figuring,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- forgoing,
- form,
- form of government,
- formation,
- formulation,
- forswearing,
- frame,
- frame of mind,
- free choice,
- free will,
- game,
- genius,
- getting rid of,
- giving,
- giving out,
- giving up,
- governance,
- government,
- grain,
- graphing,
- grip,
- ground plan,
- grouping,
- guidelines,
- habit,
- hand,
- hands,
- harmony,
- hue,
- humor,
- humors,
- idea,
- identity,
- idiosyncrasy,
- ilk,
- inclination,
- inclining,
- individualism,
- individuality,
- intention,
- iron hand,
- issuance,
- jettison,
- junking,
- jurisdiction,
- kidney,
- kind,
- lading,
- layout,
- leaning,
- lease and release,
- letting go,
- liability,
- liking,
- lineup,
- liquidation,
- loading,
- localization,
- locating,
- location,
- long-range plan,
- lust,
- make,
- makeup,
- management,
- mapping,
- marshaling,
- master plan,
- mental set,
- method,
- methodology,
- mettle,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- mold,
- mood,
- nature,
- objective,
- officiation,
- open order,
- operations research,
- order,
- order of battle,
- ordering,
- organization,
- ostracism,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- oversight,
- packing,
- passing around,
- passion,
- paying out,
- peace,
- penchant,
- personality,
- physique,
- pinpointing,
- placement,
- placing,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- pleasure,
- political organization,
- polity,
- positioning,
- posting,
- power,
- prearrangement,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- prejudice,
- probability,
- procedure,
- proclivity,
- program,
- program of action,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- property,
- proportion,
- purge,
- putting,
- quality,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- raj,
- rationalization,
- readiness,
- recantation,
- reference,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regimentation,
- regnancy,
- regularity,
- regulation,
- reign,
- release,
- relegation,
- relinquishment,
- removal,
- renunciation,
- reposition,
- resignation,
- resolution,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- routine,
- rule,
- sacrifice,
- sale,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- scrapping,
- sensitivity to,
- sequence,
- set,
- settlement,
- settling,
- setup,
- severance,
- sexual desire,
- situation,
- slant,
- soft spot,
- somatotype,
- sort,
- sovereignty,
- spirit,
- spotting,
- stamp,
- stationing,
- storage,
- stowage,
- strain,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- streak,
- stripe,
- structure,
- structuring,
- suchness,
- supervision,
- surrender,
- susceptibility,
- suspension,
- sway,
- swearing off,
- symmetry,
- syntax,
- system,
- system of government,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- talons,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- tone,
- trading,
- tranquillity,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- tropism,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- uniformity,
- vein,
- velleity,
- vesting,
- volition,
- warp,
- way,
- weakness,
- will,
- will power,
- willingness,
- wish,
- withdrawal,
- working plan,
- yielding