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introverted, ppl. a.|ɪntrəʊˈvɜːtɪd|
[f. introvert v. + -ed1.]
Turned inwards.
1. Of the mind or thought: Directed inwards upon itself, or upon that which is inward or spiritual. Also transf. of a person: Given to introversion of mind (esp. in Psychol.).
1781Cowper Conversation 365 Self-searching with an introverted eye. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 313 In modern times, no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred, as in Emanuel Swedenborg. 1856Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 16 So that his mysticus is emphatically the enclosed, self-withdrawn, introverted man. 1866Mrs. Stowe Lit. Foxes 125 In morals, in religion, too, the same introverted scrutiny detects only errors and evils, till all life seems to them a miserable, hopeless failure. 1915[see extraversion 2]. 1916C. E. Long tr. Jung's Coll. Papers Analytical Psychol. 348 The introverted type is characterised by the fact that his libido is turned towards his own personality to a certain extent. 1923[see extrovert n. (and a.)]. 1957H. J. Eysenck Dynamics Anxiety & Hysteria i. 31 We may take dysthymics on the one hand, and hysterics and psychopaths on the other, as examples of our introverted and extroverted groups. 1968C. Rycroft Critical Dict. Psychoanal. 48 There is a tendency to equate ‘introverted’ with ‘withdrawn’ or ‘schizoid’. 1974Country Life 17 Jan. 76/3 Dorothy Osborne... This witty and introverted girl.
2. a. Turned or bent inwards (physically).
1784Cowper Task iv. 633 His awkward gait, his introverted toes, Bent knees, round shoulders, and dejected looks. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. i. ii. 25 The skin, including those introverted portions of it which form the receptive area of the special senses.
b. Applied to an arrangement of words, lines of verse, etc. in which two corresponding elements (e.g. lines riming with each other) form the inner or middle part of the whole.
1896R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible i. 50 In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth. |