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somatotonic, a. and n.|səʊmətəˈtɒnɪk|
[f. somato- + tonic a.]
A. adj. Designating or characteristic of a type of personality which is extroverted and aggressive, classified by Sheldon as being associated with a mesomorphic physique.
B. n. One having this type of personality. So somatotonia |-ˈtəʊnɪə|, somatotonic personality or characteristics.
1937[see cerebrotonic a. and n.]. 1938H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 214 The classification of main human types and temperaments from Hippocrates' down to the cerebrotonics, somatotonics and viscerotonics of today. 1940W. H. Sheldon Varieties Human Physique i. 8 Somatotonia is the motivational pattern dominated by the will to exertion, exercise and vigorous self-expression. It is the drive toward dominance of the functions of the soma. 1950A. Huxley Let. 16 Mar. (1969) 621 We are fortunate to-day in possessing, at long last, a genuinely scientific method for describing physique, temperament and their interrelations..—viscerotonia, somatotonia and cerebrotonia for temperament. 1950― Themes & Variations 28 The viscerotonic and somatotonic extraverts who are at home in the world. 1969V. de S. Pinto City that Shone iii. 68, I suppose that in modern psychological jargon, as a child in those distant Edwardian days, I could be described as an introvert and cerebrotonic living in a world of extroverts, somatotonics and viscerotonics. |