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extroversion

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See also: extroversión

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Etymology

From extro- +‎ -version. As a variant of extraversion, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's use of the (then nonstandard) spelling extrovert in her publication "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte" (1918).

Noun

extroversion (usually uncountable, plural extroversions)

  1. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert, particularly:
    1. (religion, obsolete) Consideration of the material world as an aid to spiritual insight.
      • 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v. "Extroversion":
        in mystical Divinity... a scattering or distracting ones thoughts upon exterior objects.
      • 1788, John Wesley, Works, volume VI, page 451:
        The turning of the eye of the mind from [Christ] to outward things [mystics] call Extroversion.
    2. (medicine) The condition of being inside out, especially in relation to the bladder.
      • 1835, Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, volume I, page 391:
        In extroversion of the bladder the anterior part of this organ is more or less completely wanting.
    3. (informal psychology) A personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation.
      • 1920, Arthur George Tansley, The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life, page 88:
        Extroversion is the thrusting out of the mind on to life, the use of the mind in practical affairs, the pouring out of the libido on external objects.
      • 1999 October 29, Ben Brantley, “‘The Dead’: a Musical That Dares to be Quiet”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:
        In a genre characterized by brassy extroversion, The Dead is a quiet revolutionary: a musical that dares to be diffident.
      • 2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN‎:
        The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism.

Usage notes

  • Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer the form extraversion used by Carl Jung, although the variant extroversion is more common in general use.

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