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extroversion
CIDE DICTIONARY
extroversion, n. [See Extrorse.].
- The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- the trait of being interested primarily in things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [PJC]
- the act of directing one's interests primarily toward things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [PJC]
THESAURUS
extroversion
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, untaciturnityFor further exploring for "extroversion" in Webster Dictionary Online