extrovert

plural extroverts · alternative extravert

1. informalhuman sciencesAn extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.

   Natural extroverts, they burst into a room with the barely contained energy of a pair of puppy dogs.

   2018, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever — And What to Do About It, page 7

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   In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type.

   1918 April, Phyllis Blanchard, “A Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte”, in American Journal of Psychology, page 163

   He cannot find the fabled boatman, but he does come across the two stone images that belong to the boatman, and in rage and frustration, the great heroic extrovert, the man who is used to acting out whatever he feels inside, smashes the stones.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201

   To see your identity in any single trait – introvert, extrovert, or neurotic – is to limit your life.

   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

   If you’re an extrovert and the thought of weeks or months of social distancing has you jumping out of your skin, rest assured. Your feelings are normal. And we’re here to help. […] And while her introverted clients may be feeling less stressed, and sometimes even emboldened by social distancing, Blandino said both extroverts and introverts can leverage technology to weather the storm.

   2020 March 23, Ryan Prior, “The extrovert’s guide to social distancing”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2020

   So if introverts look inwards, and extroverts outwards, where the hell do otroverts look? Neither of the above.

   2025 August 20, “Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025

comparative more extrovert · superlative most extrovert · alternative extravert

1. alternativeinformalhuman sciencesAlternative form of extroverted: outgoing.

present singular third person extroverts · participle present extroverting · participle past extroverted · past extroverted · alternative extravert

1. transitiveTo turn or thrust outwards.

   The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.

   1671, John Webster, Metallographia, page 197