extroversion

plural extroversions · alternative extraversion

1. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert
   1. obsoleteuncountableusuallylifestyleConsideration of the material world as an aid to spiritual insight.

      in mystical Divinity... a scattering or distracting ones thoughts upon exterior objects.

      1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v. "Extroversion"

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      The turning of the eye of the mind from [Christ] to outward things [mystics] call Extroversion.

      1788, John Wesley, Works, volume VI, page 451

   2. uncountableusuallymedicineThe condition of being inside out, especially in relation to the bladder.

      In extroversion of the bladder the anterior part of this organ is more or less completely wanting.

      1835, Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, volume I, page 391

   3. informaluncountableusuallyhuman sciencesA personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation.

      In a genre characterized by brassy extroversion, The Dead is a quiet revolutionary: a musical that dares to be diffident.

      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 Jun 2022

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      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.

      1920, Arthur George Tansley, The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life, page 88

      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.

      2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022