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Extrovert
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of extroverted: outgoing. alt-of, alternative, informal
- 1 being concerned with the social and physical environment wordnet
- 1 An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs. informal
"In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type."
- 2 (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings wordnet
- 1 To turn or thrust outwards. transitive
"The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted."
Etymology
Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
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