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Dangerose · Queen of Hearts

Joined Sep 29, 2014 · 17,939 Posts

Discussion Starter · #1 · Sep 9, 2016

[This one discusses physical traits as well]

Greek Medicine: THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS

Which temperament do you identify yourself with?

Do you see overlap with your Enneagram type?

I see myself as choleric generally, though I wouldn't

say I fit all the qualities seen in these charts.

надоело мёрзнуть в царстве ожидании одной

стань её судьбой...

CrystallineSheep, Shadow Tag and Darkbloom

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Shinsei · թЄՏҬіしЄ
5w6 Sp/Sx ILI
Joined May 9, 2016 · 4,503 Posts

#2 · Sep 9, 2016

I am a melancholic although I do relate a lot to

choleric.

Slytherin ​

Dangerose

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Flaming Bassoon · Registered

Joined Feb 15, 2013 · 1,933 Posts

#3 · Sep 9, 2016

Mostly phlegmatic with some melancholic neuroses

and sanguine excitability.

ENFP ♡ IEE-Ne ♡ SLUA|I| ♡ 7w6-4w5-9w1 so/sx ♡

Sanguine/phlegmatic​

coconut sharks and Dangerose

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kittenmogu · Registered
K Joined Jun 19, 2014 · 825 Posts

#4 · Sep 9, 2016

If you ask me while I'm in an art environment or with

my artist friends, I become sanguine (I have literally
been told I'm smiling and dancing almost all the
time, somehow). Everywhere else I'm melancholic
(noticeably not smiling and dancing). I feel that this
matches up fairly well with my tritype- 479.

Which one is the real me? Who knows. How

someone can be a ray of sunshine at times and a
sullen hermit at others, even I'm not quite sure. It
would require effort of me to be otherwise in their
respective contexts.

☆*✲ﾟ*｡((( ISFP )))｡*ﾟ✲*☆​

Rose for a Heart and Dangerose

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periwinklepromise · Registered
Joined Jan 26, 2015 · 615 Posts

#5 · Sep 10, 2016

I'm choleric and type 8. Speaks for itself.

I do dip into the melancholic as well. I feel like

melancholic (very obviously) goes with type 4 the
best, and I consider that to be a fix of mine.

Not very S or P, which I guess means I'm not at all

emotionally stable? oops?

8w7 sx/so

Dangerose

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karmachameleon · Registered
K Joined Nov 1, 2015 · 1,938 Posts

#6 · Sep 10, 2016 (Edited)

Definitely melancholic.
Edit: I read this on another site

People with melancholic personality type love traditions.

Women cook for men; men open doors for women.
They love their families and friends and, unlike sanguine
temperament, do not look for novelty and adventure. In
fact, they avoid it at all costs. Someone with
melancholic temperament is very unlikely to marry a
foreigner or leave their homeland for another country.
They are very socialClick
and seek to contribute to
to expand...
community. Being extremely orderly and accurate,
So I change my mind. I don't fit into any of these. I
keep seeing different descriptions of the
temperaments?

Dangerose

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d e c a d e n t · Registered
Joined Apr 21, 2013 · 7,172 Posts

#7 · Sep 10, 2016

I feel like none of them fit me that well, but

somewhere between Melancholic and Phlegmatic
probably. Mostly just relate to the "Weaknesses" for
any of them though.

Just open up, embrace me

And let me dwell within​

Rose for a Heart and Dangerose

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coconut sharks · Registered

C Joined Apr 26, 2015 · 224 Posts

#8 · Sep 10, 2016

I can relate to every temperament except Choleric.

I'm not reliable and emotionally stable enough to be
Phlegmatic, not extroverted enough to be Sanguine
and too scattered and spontaneous to be
Melancholic.
The parts I relate to the most are weaknesses.

i’m giving up personhood to become a full-time abstract concept​

4w5 7w6 9w1 xNTP​

they say that dreaming is free

d e c a d e n t and Dangerose

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Darkbloom · 🎀
Joined Aug 10, 2013 · 11,795 Posts

#9 · Sep 10, 2016

I don't like that typing system

I'd say choleric but not pure choleric, feels more

right than others

It's a yum-yummy world

Dangerose

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Dangerose · Queen of Hearts

Joined Sep 29, 2014 · 17,939 Posts

Discussion Starter · #10 · Sep 10, 2016

I should say...like, looking at that first chart choleric

doesn't really seem to work for me
Generally, though, I find it a pretty good summary of
my personality, it feels like the most clarifying thing I
could say about myself. Probably not more than 2
but most people aren't familiar with Enneagram and
such but just for a general 'how I am' it makes
sense as a . . . disclaimer or sidebar. Though, I'm
obviously not an alpha male type. Or, y'know, a gut
type.

Though reading online descriptions, it doesn't seem

very accurate :/

надоело мёрзнуть в царстве ожидании одной

стань её судьбой...

Darkbloom

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Aladdin Sane · Registered

A Joined May 10, 2016 · 2,574 Posts

#11 · Sep 10, 2016

Melancholic.

Dangerose

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Shadow Tag · Registered

Big 5 = Best
Joined Jan 11, 2014 · 895 Posts

#12 · Sep 10, 2016

This personality system has been growing on me as

of late (Big 5 forever though). It's simple, descriptive
enough, and to the point. While I definitely idealize
the Sanguine temperament and see it in myself to a
point, I would be lying if I told you that Phlegmatic
wasn't my dominant temperament. I can come
across as Sanguine only when I am in familiar
company or when I feel the need to put on an act
(AKA when I'm teaching). I'd also say that 9 (no
matter instinct) lines up with Phlegmatic 95% of the
time.

On the other hand, the other two temperaments

don't describe me at all. There have been times
when I've asked myself whether or not I relate to
Choleric in any meaningful way, but its descriptors
are wildly hit and miss. I like to think that I am
ambitious, but I still feel as though I've more or less
floated through life and been lucky.

rcoan
:hampster:

Brains, Dangerose and Aladdin Sane

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Rose for a Heart · Banned

R Joined Nov 13, 2011 · 2,044 Posts

#13 · Sep 10, 2016

Lol sanguine sounds too much like a 7

Dangerose

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Dangerose · Queen of Hearts

Joined Sep 29, 2014 · 17,939 Posts

Discussion Starter · #14 · Sep 10, 2016

Rose for a Heart said: "

Lol sanguine sounds too much like a 7

I also see it fitting so-first instinct stacking across

the board) well, for the more...sanguine...types, at
least

надоело мёрзнуть в царстве ожидании одной

стань её судьбой...

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Rose for a Heart · Banned

R Joined Nov 13, 2011 · 2,044 Posts

#15 · Sep 10, 2016

The closest one for me is melancholic, but I'm not

organized and all that stuff lol...

Dangerose

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d e c a d e n t · Registered
Joined Apr 21, 2013 · 7,172 Posts

#16 · Sep 10, 2016 (Edited)

It's strange though, in a way I feel I have something

"too sanguine" about me. Idk, it's something I'm
struggling to explain.

So maybe I made myself become more melancholic

or whatever because it seems like a more ideal way
to be.

(Edit: Well, more seriously, it's like if I receive

criticism that seems more in line with the other
temperaments I don't necessarily see it as anything
negative, but being rejected for being "sanguine"
seems like the worst. =P)

Just open up, embrace me

And let me dwell within​

Dangerose

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Faery · Registered
Joined May 18, 2011 · 2,817 Posts

#17 · Sep 10, 2016

Melancholic with sanguine bursts.

"You couldn't kill me if you tried for a hundred years."

Lagertha Lothbrok

Dangerose and coconut sharks

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Vermillion · Registered
Joined Jan 22, 2012 · 3,545 Posts

#18 · Sep 10, 2016

Melancholic-choleric. Sometimes strongly one, and

sometimes strongly the other, but mostly a decent
combination of both.

Dangerose and Felipe

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Felipe · Registered
Joined Feb 25, 2016 · 2,190 Posts

#19 · Sep 10, 2016

Aladdin Sane said: "

Melancholic.

Strange, I always thought you were phlegmatic.

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AshOrLey · Registered
Joined May 28, 2016 · 3,122 Posts

#20 · Sep 10, 2016

I relate mostly with Phlegmatic

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Dangerose

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