somatotonicadj.n.
/səʊmətəˈtɒnɪk/ 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.
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extraverted1915
extrovert1918
extroversive1923
extroverted1923
extraversive1937
somatotonic1937
extrovertish1946
1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means xi. 165 Dr. William Sheldon, whose classification [of types of human beings] in terms of somatotonic, viscerotonic and cerebrotonic I shall use.
1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 28 The viscerotonic and somatotonic extraverts who are at home in the world.
B. n.
One having this type of personality.
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extravert1916
extrovert1918
somatotonic1938
1938 H. 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.
1969 V. 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.
Derivatives
somatotonia n. /-ˈtəʊnɪə/ somatotonic personality or characteristics.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > transfer of feelings > turning outwards > [noun]
extraversion1915
extroversion1920
somatotonia1940
1940 W. H. Sheldon Varieties of 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.
1950 A. 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.
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