extroversion
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See also: extroversión
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From extrovert + -sion, a variant of extraversion popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's use of the variant (then nonstandard) spelling extrovert in her 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte".
Noun
extroversion (usually uncountable, plural extroversions)
- The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert, particularly:
- (religion, obsolete) Consideration of the material world as an aid to spiritual insight.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v. "Extroversion":
- in mystical Divinity... a scattering or distracting ones thoughts upon exterior objects.
- 1788, John Wesley, Works, volume VI, page 451:
- The turning of the eye of the mind from to outward things call Extroversion.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v. "Extroversion":
- (medicine) The condition of being inside out, especially in relation to the bladder.
- 1835, Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, volume I, page 391:
- In extroversion of the bladder the anterior part of this organ is more or less completely wanting.
- (informal psychology) A personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation.
- 1920, Arthur George Tansley, The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life, page 88:
- 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.
- 1999 October 29, Ben Brantley, “‘The Dead’: a Musical That Dares to be Quiet”, in New York Times:
- In a genre characterized by brassy extroversion, The Dead is a quiet revolutionary: a musical that dares to be diffident.
- (religion, obsolete) Consideration of the material world as an aid to spiritual insight.
Usage notes
Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer the form extraversion used by Carl Jung, although the variant extroversion is more common in general use.
Synonyms
- (medicine): exstrophy
- (psychology): sociability
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “psychology”): introversion
Related terms
Translations
concern with or an orientation toward others
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References
- “extroversion, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1894. - Scott Barry Kaufman, "The Difference between ExtrAversion and ExtrOversion", Beautiful Minds, Scientific American, Springer Nature America, 2015.
