Meanings
comparative more extroitive · superlative most extroitive
- obsoleterareSeeking or going out after external objects.
extroitive conduct
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c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinextra“on the outside”
- Englishextroitive
From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).
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