'extroversion' definitions:
Definition of 'extroversion'
(from WordNet)
noun
(psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self [syn: extraversion, extroversion] [ant: ambiversion, introversion]
Definition of 'extroversion'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'extroversion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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