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cerebrotonic, a. and n.|ˌsɛrɪbrəʊˈtɒnɪk|
[f. cerebro- + tonic a. 1 a.]
A. adj. Designating or characteristic of a type of personality which is introverted, intellectual, and emotionally restrained, classified by Sheldon as being associated with an ectomorphic physique.
B. n. One having this type of personality. So cerebrotonia |-ˈtəʊnɪə|, cerebrotonic personality or characteristics.
1937A. 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. Ibid. xii. 193 The cerebrotonic is not such a ‘good mixer’ as the viscerotonic. 1940W. H. Sheldon Var. Human Physique 8 In the economy of the cerebrotonic individual the sensory and central nervous systems appear to play dominant roles. 1945A. Huxley Let. 2 Apr. (1969) 517 There was just enough of the somatotonic in his..cerebrotonic make-up to make him regret his cerebrotonia. 1950― Themes & Var. i. 121 Too secretively the introvert, too inhibitedly cerebrotonic, to be willing to take the risk of ‘giving himself away’. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 28 Cerebrotonic Cato may Extol the Ancient Disciplines. 1954R. Fuller Fantasy & Fugue iv. 75 You..unfortunately incline to the cerebrotonic ectomorph—you worry too much, you're too good looking, and you can't abandon yourself happily to booze. |