What (who) is disposition - definition

TENDENCY OF A PERSON TO ACT IN A SPECIFIED WAY

Disposition (philosophy); Dispositions

disposition

Disposing, arranging, arrangement, placing, location, grouping.

Management, regulation, control, direction, ordering, adjustment, disposure, disposal.

Tendency, proneness, inclination, proclivity, propensity, predisposition, bent, bias.

Temper, nature, native character, native impulses, humor, turn.

Willingness, inclination.

Dispensation, distribution, bestowment.

disposition

¦ noun

1. a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.

an inclination or tendency.

2. the way in which something is placed or arranged.

(dispositions) the stationing of troops ready for military action.

3. Law the transfer of property or money to someone, in particular by bequest.

4. the power to deal with something as one pleases.

archaic the determination of events by divine power.

disposition

(dispositions)

Someone's disposition is the way that they tend to behave or feel.

The rides are unsuitable for people of a nervous disposition...

= nature

N-COUNT: usu supp N

A disposition to do something is a willingness to do it. (FORMAL)

This has given him a disposition to consider our traditions critically...

= inclination

N-SING: usu N to-inf

If you refer to the disposition of a number of objects, you mean the pattern in which they are arranged or their positions in relation to each other. (FORMAL)

= arrangement

N-SING: the N of n

The disposition of money or property is the act of giving or distributing it to a number of people. (LEGAL)

Judge Stacks was appointed to oversee the disposition of funds.

= distribution

N-COUNT: N of n

Wikipedia

Disposition

A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way.

The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind.

In Bourdieu's theory of fields, dispositions are the natural tendencies of each individual to take on a specific position in any field. There is no strict determinism through one's dispositions. The habitus is the choice of positions according to one's dispositions. However, in retrospect, a space of possibles can always be observed.

A disposition is not a process or event in some duration in time, but rather the state, preparation, or tendency of a structure "in waiting". In the field of possibilities, its actual triggering has a statistical value.

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Pronunciation examples for disposition

1. have a fairly anxious disposition.

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2. about their particular disposition,

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3. it's an unfortunate genetic disposition."

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4. There's disposition effects.

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5. I meet the disposition halfway.

Examples of use of disposition

1. His sunny disposition appealed to all backgrounds.

2. She really does have a sunny disposition." Well, tonight we‘ll see just how that disposition bears up to another mauling by the Strictly Come Dancing judges.

3. Information about the disposition of the case was unavailable Sunday.

4. I’m an educated, tax–paying citizen with a calm disposition.

5. "What is required is a change of heart, of disposition, of attitude.