Extroversion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  extroversion \ex`tro*ver"sion\, n. [See {Extrorse}.]
     1. The condition of being turned wrong side out; as,
        extroversion of the bladder. --Dunglison.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Psychol.) the trait of being interested primarily in


        things in one's external environement, rather than one's
        own thoughts and feelings.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Psychol.) the act of directing one's interests primarily
        toward things in one's external environement, rather than
        one's own thoughts and feelings.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extroversion
       n : (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what
           is outside the self [syn: {extraversion}] [ant: {introversion},
            {ambiversion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "extroversion":
     accessibility, ambiversion, approachability, candor,
     communicativeness, complexion, conversableness,
     cycloid personality, cyclothymia, ectomorphism, ectomorphy,
     endomorphism, endomorphy, extrovertedness, frankness, freeness,
     humor, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, mesomorphism,
     mesomorphy, openness, other-directedness, outgoingness,
     outspokenness, personality tendency, plainness, plainspokenness,
     schizoid personality, schizothymia, sociability, somatotype,
     syntony, talkativeness, unconstraint, unrepression, unreserve,
     unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence,
     unsecretiveness, unsuppression, untaciturnity