extrovert
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstɹəvəːt/ / /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹt/ / /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːt/
adj
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.
- Alternative form of extroverted: outgoing.
noun
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.
- An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.
“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.”
“He cannot find the fabled boatman, but he does come across the two stone images that belong to the boatman, and in rage and frustration, the great heroic extrovert, the man who is used to acting out whatever he feels inside, smashes the stones.”
verb
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.
- To turn or thrust outwards.
“The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.”