Having a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional and stolidly calm. A phlegmatic person shows little excitement, passion, or emotional response to situations.
From Greek 'phlegmatikos' meaning 'made of phlegm,' one of the four bodily humors in ancient medicine. The Greeks believed excess phlegm made people sluggish and unemotional, leading to our modern meaning of emotionally unresponsive.
Think 'fleg-MATIC' like a automatic flag that never waves—it just hangs there unmoved by any wind! Phlegmatic people are like human sedatives, maintaining the same emotional temperature regardless of chaos around them.
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