ambiversion

Meanings

nounambiversion (uncountable)

uncountablehuman sciencesA personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
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The definition of ambiversion grows then directly out of the two preceding [extroversion and introversion] and is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective conditions is so varied as to make possible more or less prolonged periods of either extroversion or introversion.
1923 January–March, Edmund S. Conklin, “The Definition of Introversion, Extroversion and Allied Concepts”, in Morton Prince, Floyd H[enry] Allport, editors, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, volume XVII, number 4, Albany, N.Y.: Published by Boyd Printing Company, Inc. […], →OCLC, page 377

noun(psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion

Opposite

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

From ambi (“both ways”) + -version (“turning”) (ultimately from Latin vertō (“to turn; to turn around”)), modelled after extroversion and introversion.

French ambiversion

ambiversionpersonality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion

Portuguese ambiversão

ambiversãopersonality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion

Vietnamese hướng trung

hướng trungpersonality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion

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