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- adjective Designating a personality type characterised as
intellectual ,introverted , and emotionally restrained.
Etymologies
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Coined by WH Sheldon, from cerebro- + tonic.
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Examples
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But his cerebrotonic workouts endow him with the ornamental, gym-cultivated biceps shown off by yuppie lawyers and gay hairstylists, whose occupations hardly require them to do heavy lifting.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review 2011
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