SOMATOTYPE


Meaning of SOMATOTYPE in English

■ noun a category to which people are assigned according to their bodily physique (usually endomorphic, mesomorphic, or ectomorphic).

Derivatives

somatotyping noun

Origin

1940s: coined by W. H. Sheldon in The Varieties of Human Physique .

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