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

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1. List of paraphrases for "disposition":

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

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1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

2. Interior Ministry:

   At the moment the cell was broken up, its members were fully radicalized and in a phase of total assimilation and commitment to the terrorist ideology -- demonstrating their full disposition to carry out an attack in Madrid.

3. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker:

   One should stop - especially Britain, which was always for expansion of the European Union - discriminating against countries only because it comes across well in the current context if you beat up on others, i am strictly against that one should - and this is the key point - act as if all Poles, all Romanians, all Bulgarians who are on the European labor market are doing this out of a basically criminal disposition. These are people who are working to get paid.

4. 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.

5. Edmund Burke:

   A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.