An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
(when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
“Cameron County has a warm temperature with a subtropical climate, characterized by dry winters and hot humid summers.”
“The boy has a temperature. He should rest until he feels better.”
“The temperature plummeted to below zero, enough to make one's teeth chatter!”
temperament
(obsolete) A moderate and proportionablemixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
(obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. Shakespeare, in The Tempest 2.1.41 : (of the climate of the island) "It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance"
“Kristen learned to exercise temperance in regard to how many hours she put into ministry.”
“Clerical speakers at these celebrations repeatedly returned to the need for disciplined temperance amongst the faithful.”
“I recall you giving up drink when you tied the knot with Miss Morstan, but surely he would not inflict his newfound temperance on every one of his guests?”
“The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation.”
“He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself.”
“Is the educated, temperate public right to wonder about the temperateness of many educators?”