introversion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=tro=ver=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

introversion, n. [See Introvert.].

 The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.  Berkeley.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

introversion

aloofness, ambiversion, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, chilliness, coldness, complexion, constraint, coolness, cycloid personality, cyclothymia, depth, detachment, discreetness, discretion, distance, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, ectropion, endomorphism, endomorphy, eversion, expressionlessness, extroversion, extrovertedness, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, humor, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, ingoingness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intrinsicality, introvertedness, intussusception, invagination, inversion, inwardness, mesomorphism, mesomorphy, modesty, other-directedness, outgoingness, personality tendency, pronation, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, resupination, reticence, reticency, retirement, retroflexion, retroversion, reversal, reversing, reversion, revulsion, schizoid personality, schizothymia, somatotype, standoffishness, subduedness, supination, suppression, syntony, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transposal, transposition, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, withdrawal, withdrawnness

ROGET THESAURUS

introversion

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.