1. (

• temper ,
• mood ,
• humor ,
• humour

) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" ;

2. (

• climate ,
• mood

) the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" ;

3. (

• mood ,
• mode ,
• modality ,

) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker ;