introvertedly

comparative more introvertedly · superlative most introvertedly

1. In an introverted manner.

   Mind is not always in act, either toward the outer world, or, introvertedly, toward its own states.

   1857, Isaac Taylor, chapter 15, in The World of Mind, London: Jackson and Walford, page 217

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   […] a person would sit within and against the encircling walls, introvertedly sheltered and alone, looking toward the open sea.

   1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pages 162–163

   But there was little joy for him in Alfredo’s musicality. The boy – the man now – played introvertedly, for nobody’s pleasure but his own.

   2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 2, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 60