kolytic

comparative more kolytic · superlative most kolytic

1. Pertaining to inhibition, especially as a generalized personality trait.

   The kolytic type, on the other hand, is more calm and controlled, with a greater passivity of mind and body.

   1932, British Medical Association, The Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology, page 72

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   According to this theory, all nerve centers, including those of the psychic level of the cerebral cortex, are composed of both erethitic and kolytic cells associated with the specific functions of excitation and inhibition.

   1932 November, J. Ramsay Hunt, “ERETHIZOPHRENIA AND KOLYPHRENIA: A Physiological Conception of Psychological Types and Their Relation to Psychopathology”, in American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 89, number 3

   We can recognize two fundamental psychological types, an erethitic and a kolytic, due to a predominance of one or other of these functions in the psychic field.

   1933, The Journal of Mental Science - Volume 79, page 398

   Hunt (1929) introduces the concepts of "eremitic" and "kolytic" types, which he identifies with inhibition (introversion) and excitation (extraversion) respectively.

   1950, Hans J. Eysenck, Dimensions of Personality, →ISBN, page 57