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.]. 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. 1980 F. 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. |