extraspective

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English

Etymology

From extraspect +‎ -ive.

Adjective

extraspective (comparative more extraspective, superlative most extraspective)

  1. Involving extraspection.
    • 1994, David A. Winter, Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice, page 173:
      However, these treatments could be contrasted not only on the introspective-extraspective, but also on the group-individual dimension, and accordingly current research is examining clients' construing and personal styles in relation to their response to an introspective and an extraspective group therapeutic approach.
    • 2001, Seumas Miller, Social Action: A Teleological Account, page 4:
      In claiming the existence of extraspective interactions I am not committing myself to any particular analysis or theory of them, nor am I committing myself to the existence of controversial species of extraspective interactions, such as telepathy.
    • 2014, C.D. Broad, The Mind and its Place in Nature, page 328:
      The perception of another body and of certain movements or modifications of it is essential to extraspection; and so one part of the objective constituent of any extraspective situation is the vidual and other sensa by which the foreign body appears to us in perception.