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Synonyms for extrovert
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ek-struh-vurt, -stroh- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛk strəˌvɜrt, -stroʊ- |
Définition of extrovert
Origin :- 1916, extravert (spelled with -o- after 1918, by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, from extra "outside" (see extra-) + Latin vertere "to turn" (see versus).
- With introvert, words that had been used in English by doctors and scientists in various literal senses since 1600s, but popularized in a psychological sense by Carl Jung. Related: Extroverted.
- noun sociable person
- The opposite applies to the feeling and thought of the extrovert.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- The extrovert is the typical active; always leaning out of the window and setting up contacts with the outside world.
- Extract from : « The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day » by Evelyn Underhill
- The introvert regards everything from the aspect of his own personality; the extrovert is dependent upon the value of his object.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- An Extrovert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- Similarly, the extrovert may apparently think, and that even very clearly and scientifically.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- The introvert is characterised by the thought standpoint; the extrovert by the feeling standpoint.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- The accent of value lies upon the ego for the introvert, but upon the object for the extrovert.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- For instance, "person" means something totally different to the extrovert from what it does to the introvert.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- Count Duklass had thinning red hair and a plump, agreeable, extrovert's face.
- Extract from : « Ministry of Disturbance » by Henry Beam Piper
- If I said you were an extrovert, would that agree with your own judgment of yourself?
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Antonyms for extrovert
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