单词 | viscerotonic |
释义 | viscerotonic, a. and n.|ˌvɪsərəʊˈtɒnɪk| [f. viscero- + tonic a.] 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. B. n. One having this type of personality. So visceroˈtonia |-ˈtəʊnɪə|, viscerotonic personality or characteristics. Cf. cerebrotonic, somatotonic adjs. and ns.
1937[see cerebrotonic a. and n.]. 1938, etc. [see somatotonic a. and n.]. 1956Goacher & 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. 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. 1980F. J. Bruno Behav. & 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. |

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