extraversion

Alternative spelling of extroversion.

Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of extroversion.
    • ...the supposed Extraversion or Intraversion of Sulphur... - 1675, Robert Boyle, “Of the Imperfection of the Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities”, in The Mechanical Origine or Production of Corrosiveness and Corrosibility,...
    • I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type. - 1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 396:

Origin

From New Latin extrāversio, from Classical Latin extrā- (“outside”) + versio (“a turning”). Equivalent to extravert + -sion. Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung.

Forms

extraversions

Derived

extraversive extravert extraverted