单词 | viscerotonic |
释义 | viscerotonicadj.n. A. adj. Designating or characteristic of a type of personality which is comfort-loving, sociable, and easy-going, classified by Sheldon as being associated with an endomorphic physique. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > light-hearted lightOE recklessc1400 lightsomea1425 light-hearted1440 free-hearted1549 unsolicitous1668 jaunty1672 carefree1795 light-heart1802 sans-souciant1826 buoyant-minded1833 cheero1915 viscerotonic1937 funsy1958 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > viscerotonic viscerotonic1937 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. 1980 [see viscerotonia n. at Derivatives]. B. n. One having this type of personality. Cf. cerebrotonic adj. and n., somatotonic adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness > light-hearted person happy-go-lucky1835 Jack Shalloo1875 viscerotonic1938 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person > one having sociable or easy-going personality viscerotonic1938 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. 1956 Goacher & Whigham in E. Pound tr. Sophocles' Women of Trachis 60 Stigmatized as a sex crank, as a maniacal visceratonic [sic], he [sc. D. H. Lawrence] in fact made an extraordinary effort to re-establish the ‘whole’ man. 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 visceroˈtonia n. /-ˈtəʊnɪə/ viscerotonic personality or characteristics. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness lightnessa1350 light-heartedness1603 jauntiness1712 gaieté de cœur1728 sans souci1781 boyhood1829 sans-souci-ism1837 breeziness1885 gaydom1922 carefreeness1924 viscerotonia1980 happy-go-luckiness2008 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person > one having sociable or easy-going personality > viscerotonic personality or characteristics viscerotonia1980 1980 F. J. Bruno Behaviour & Life xi. 379 As might be expected, viscerotonia is said to be correlated with endomorphy. The extreme endomorph with a viscerotonic personality would be a self-indulgent person. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1937 |
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