extraversion
Alternative spelling of extroversion.
Noun
- 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.