extroversion
/ek-struh-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn, ek-struh-vur-, -stroh-/US // ˌɛk strəˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən, ˈɛk strəˌvɜr-, -stroʊ- //UK // (ˌɛkstrəˈvɜːʃən) //
外向性,外向型,外向度,外向
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a disposition that is energized through social engagement and languishes or chafes in solitude, resulting in a personality that is gregarious, outgoing, and sociable.
- : Psychology. the act of directing one's interest outward or to things outside the self.the state of being concerned primarily with things outside the self, with the external environment rather than with one's own thoughts and feelings.Compare introversion.
- : Pathology. a turning inside out, as of the eyelids or of the bladder.
Examples
It puts a premium on flexibility, versatility, and extroversion.
However, researchers have found that, by 2nd or 3rd grade, extroversion is only half as important.
This terminology, Introversion and Extroversion, is bound up with my way of regarding mental phenomena as forms of energy.
The introversion type only knows the thought principle, and the extroversion type only that of feeling.
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