Meanings
plural extraverts
- alternativeAlternative spelling of extrovert.
An Extravert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.
1916, Constance Ellen Long trans. Carl Jung as Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, p. 349
comparative more extravert · superlative most extravert
- alternativeAlternative spelling of extrovert.
The personality which thus combines introvert and extravert reactions... can be... called an ‘altrovert’...
1924, A.G. Ikin, The British Journal of Medical Psychology, number 4, page 214
present singular third person extraverts · participle present extraverting · participle past extraverted · past extraverted
- alternativeAlternative spelling of extrovert, especially (early chemistry, obsolete) so as to be visible.
It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals.
1669, William Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica, page 521 more example
An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.
1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 397
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivebeing concerned with the social and physical environment
noun(psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinextrā-“outside”
- Latinextrāvertō
- Englishextravert
As a verb, from New Latin extrāvertō, from Classical Latin extrā- (“outside”) + vertō (“to turn”). As a noun and adjective, a back-formation from extraversion. Popularized in psychology by translations of German works by Carl Jung. By surface analysis, extra- + -vert.
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