extravert
Noun

extravert (plural extraverts)

  1. Alternative spelling of extrovert
    • 1916, Constance Ellen Long trans. Carl Jung as Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, p. 349:
      An Extravert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.
Adjective

extravert

  1. Alternative spelling of extrovert
    • 1924, A.G. Ikin, The British Journal of Medical Psychology, No. 4, p. 214:
      The personality which thus combines introvert and extravert reactions... can be... called an ‘altrovert’...
Verb

extravert (extraverts, present participle extraverting; past and past participle extraverted)

  1. Alternative spelling of extrovert, especially (early chemistry, obsolete) so as to be visible.
    • 1669, William Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica, p. 52:
      It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals.
    • 1915, Carl Jung, "On Psychological Understanding", Journal of Abnormal Psychology, No. 9, p. 397:
      An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.



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