introversionn.
/ɪntrəʊˈvəːʃən/ 1.
a. The action of turning the thoughts inwards, i.e. to one's own mind or soul, or to the contemplation of inward or spiritual things.
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the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > [noun]
self-study1547
self-reflection1644
introversion1654
introspection1807
in-looking1853
introvision1862
inlooka1897
the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > introspection > [noun]
search1520
searching1611
self-searching1632
soul-searchinga1651
introversion1654
soul search1667
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 68 Their..Fastings, Prayings,..Introversions,..Humiliations, Mortifications.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity xi. §16. 380 They plentifully assert this inward Introversion and Abstraction of the Mind..from all Images and Thoughts.
1788 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 451 The attending to the voice of Christ within you is what they [the Mystics] term Introversion.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 214 Hamlet, who so perfectly typifies the introversion and complexity of modern thought as compared with ancient.
b. The tendency to turn psychic energy inwards and to withdraw from the external world; opposed to extraversion n. 2, extroversion n. 3.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > retiring or withdrawn disposition
withdrawingness1795
retiringness1801
oysterhood1854
shelliness1866
introversion1912
withdrawnness1927
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > transfer of feelings > turning inwards > [noun]
introversion1912
cerebrotonia1945
1912 Psychol. Bull. 9 159 So that when in later life there occurs an introversion (in the sense of Jung), it consists of a harking back to regressive, reminiscent, infantile material.
1915 C. G. Jung in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 9 396 I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.
1935 C. G. Jung Analyt. Psychol. (1968) ii. 41 The psychological mechanism of introversion of the conscious mind into the deeper layers of the unconscious psyche.
1955 Sci. News Let. 19 Mar. 185/2 Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 75 Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.
2.
a. The action of (physically) turning inwards, esp. of withdrawing an outer part into the interior; the condition of being so turned inwards.
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [noun] > turning inwards
introversion1796
inturning1897
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > turning inwards or inside out
inversion1565
invagination1658
introversion1796
evagination1877
meniscus1877
1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 186 This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid.
1883 E. Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 652/1 [article Mollusca] The process of incomplete introversion of that simple rostrum.
1883 E. Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 652/1 The process either of introversion or of eversion of the tube may be arrested at any point.
b. Of lines of verse: see introverted adj. 2b.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > introversion of corresponding elements
introversion1896
1896 R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible i. 50 Such introversion is merely a matter of form.
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