Synonyms for disposition
ˌdɪs pəˈzɪʃ əndis·po·si·tion

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1. disposition

   Appetite is used only of the demands of the physical system, unless otherwise expressly stated, as when we say an appetite for knowledge; passion includes all excitable impulses of our nature, as anger, fear, love, hatred, etc. Appetite is thus more animal than passion; and when we speak of passions and appetites as conjoined or contrasted, we think of the appetites as wholly physical and of the passions as, in part at least, mental or spiritual. We say an appetite for food, a passion for fame. Compare DESIRE.

   Compare ANTIPATHY.

   Synonyms:
   appetency, appetite, craving, desire, impulse, inclination, liking, longing, lust, passion, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, thirst, zest

   Antonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repugnance, repulsion

   Preposition:
   He had an insatiable appetite for the marvellous.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. disposition, temperamentnoun

   your usual mood

   "he has a happy disposition"

   Synonyms:
   disposal, temperament, tendency, inclination

2. disposal, dispositionnoun

   the act or means of getting rid of something

   Synonyms:
   disposal, tendency, garbage disposal, temperament, electric pig, inclination, administration

3. inclination, disposition, tendencynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   lean, temperament, magnetic dip, angle of dip, list, inclining, magnetic inclination, tilt, inclination, trend, angle of inclination, disposal, dip, inclination of an orbit, leaning, tendency, propensity

4. dispositionnoun

   a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing

   "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"

   Synonyms:
   disposal, temperament, tendency, inclination

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Attitude
   • Nature
   • Property

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   disposing, arranging, arrangement, classification, grouping

2. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   management, regulation, control, direction, ordering, adjustment, disposure, disposal

3. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tendency, liability, proneness, aptness, adaptation

4. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   temper, inclination, predisposition, propensity, humor, bent, bias, turn

5. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   dispensation, distribution, bestowment

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1. dispositionnoun

   Synonyms:
   temperament, mood, nature, willingness, readiness, inclination, arrangement, disposal, propensity, inclination, proneness, proclivity, bias, bent

   Antonyms:
   indisposition, unwillingness, disinclination

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "disposition":

   provision, disposal, alienation, elimination, available, liquidation, decision, winding-up, phase-out

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How to use disposition in a sentence?

1. Albert Jay Nock:

   It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   The number of asylum seekers who will remain in potentially indefinite detention pending disposition of their cases will be almost entirely a question of DHS's detention capacity, and not whether the individual circumstances of individual cases warrant release or detention.

3. David Camic:

   He got the best disposition that was available given the constraints of Illinois law.

4. Thomas Aquinas:

   Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

5. J. E. Dinger:

   It is not the position, but the disposition.