Meanings
comparative more viscerotonic · superlative most viscerotonic
- Designating a personality type characterised as sociable, easy-going, and comfort-seeking.
plural viscerotonics
- A person with such a personality.
Joffre was a true viscerotonic, and this was the source of his principal strengths and weaknesses.
1962, Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory, Penguin, published 1993, page 20
Origin
Coined by WH Sheldon, from viscero- + tonic.
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