noun
extroversion
Extroversion (noun) means the state of being an extrovert, someone who is outgoing and sociable.
noun
1
The state of being an extrovert, someone who is outgoing and sociable.
2
(philosophy) Looking at the physical world as a way of gaining spiritual understanding.
3
(medicine) A condition in which an organ, especially the bladder, is turned inside out.
4
A personality type focused on other people and things outside oneself, or behaviour that shows this.
"In a genre characterized by brassy extroversion, The Dead is a quiet revolutionary: a musical that dares to be diffident."
— Ben Brantley, ‘The Dead’: a Musical That Dares to be Quiet (1999)
"The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism."
— Drake Baer, Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that (2016)
"Extroversion is the thrusting out of the mind on to life, the use of the mind in practical affairs, the pouring out of the libido on external objects."
— Arthur George Tansley, The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life (1920)
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Etymology
From extro- + -version. As a variant of extraversion, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's use of the (then nonstandard) spelling extrovert in her publication "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte" (1918).
Synonyms
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Rhymes for extroversion
region
ablation
allusion
emulsion
ideation
novation
diffusion
elocution
extension
oxidation
perfusion
selection
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Frequently asked questions
What is the meaning of extroversion?
"extroversion" (noun) means the state of being an extrovert, someone who is outgoing and sociable.
What is another word for extroversion?
Other words for "extroversion" include extraversion.
What are the different meanings of extroversion?
"extroversion" has 3 main meanings: 1. The state of being an extrovert, someone who is outgoing and sociable; 2. (philosophy) Looking at the physical world as a way of gaining spiritual understanding; 3. (medicine) A condition in which an organ, especially the bladder, is turned inside out.
