The meaning of Pyknic
Pyknic – definition
adjectiveRelating to or denoting a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat.
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One's physical or bodily shape can be classified into the pyknic type, the muscular type and the in…
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Word origin
1920s: from Greek puknos ‘thick’ + -ic. The word was first used by the German psychiatrist, Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), in his tripartite classification of human types (the other two being
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