Meaning of Introversion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A turning inward, particularly
   uncountable, usually
2. A turning inward
   uncountable, usually
3. The action of turning one's thoughts upon internal or spiritual matters.
   uncountable, usually
4. A personality orientation towards the self and mental abstraction; behavior expressing such orientation.
   uncountable, usually
5. Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid.”

“...their... Fastings, Prayings,... Introversions,... Humiliations, Mortifications...”

“The attending to the voice of Christ within you is what [mystics] term Introversion.”

“... Hamlet, who so perfectly typifies the introversion and complexity of modern thought as compared with ancient...”

“...so that when in later life there occurs an introversion (in the sense of Jung), it consists of a harking back to regressive, reminiscent, infantile material.”

“I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.”

“Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion.”

“Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.”

“The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism.”

“Such introversion is merely a matter of form.”

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