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▪ I. extrovert, v. rare.|ɛkstrəʊˈvɜːt|
[f. extro- prefix + L. vert-ĕre to turn. Cf. introvert: see extravert.]
trans. To turn or thrust outwards (a material object); to give an outward direction to (thought).
1671J. Webster Metallogr. xii. 197 The external and combustible Sulphur..is..protruded and extroverted. 1804Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 102 Every idea that could, even by possibility, extrovert the thought.
▪ II. extrovert, n. (and a.) Psychol.|ˈɛkstrəvɜːt|
[var. extravert n. after introvert: see extro-.]
A person given to or characterized by extroversion; a sociable or unreserved person; also transf. Also attrib. or as adj. So ˈextroverted ppl. a., ˈextrovertish a. = extroversive a.
1918P. Blanchard in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 163 Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type. 1920Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 205/4 The external always throws him [sc. George Herbert] back into himself, and then his thoughts turn outwards for confirmation... He is, in the language of modern psychology, both introvert and extrovert, yet never an egotist. 1920Challenge 21 May 44/2 An extrovert soldier faced with the problem of escape from war conditions. 1923Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar., Any one of these will display either the introverted or the extroverted attitude. 1925C. Fox Educat. Psychol. 254 The first is called the extroverted type, because in the main he goes outside himself to the object. 1926W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 440 The characteristic neurosis of the extrovert is hysteria, while that of the introvert is neurasthenia or psychasthenia. 1946W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. 388 Prufrock is the antithetical brother of Eliot's Sweeney, whose extrovertish animalism functions equally without benefit of an ethic. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 774/1 Practical and shrewd, irascible and extrovert, he dominated the college from 1792 to 1834. 1958P. Tanner in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xi. 138 It is also a happy extroverted music, making up in warmth what it may often lack in subtlety. 1968Autocar 25 Jan. 8/1 Certainly not a budget car, this..is already gaining a name as a noisy, successful little extrovert. |