different between extraversion vs introversion

English

Etymology

From New Latin extr?versio, from Classical Latin extr?- (“outside”) + versio (“a turning”). Equivalent to extravert +? -sion. Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung.

Noun

extraversion (countable and uncountable, plural extraversions)

1. Alternative spelling of extroversion
   • 1675, Robert Boyle, "Of the Imperfection of the Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities", The Mechanical Origine or Production of Corrosiveness and Corrosibility, p. 36:

     ...the supposed Extraversion or Intraversion of Sulphur...

   • 1915, Carl Jung, "On Psychological Understanding", Journal of Abnormal Psychology, No. 9, p. 396:

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

Usage notes

Technical papers in psychology still prefer the variant extraversion used by Carl Jung, although the spelling extroversion is more common in general use.

Derived terms

• extraversive, extravert, extraverted

References

• “extraversion, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894

French

Noun

extraversion f (plural extraversions)

1. extroversion

English

Etymology

From New Latin intr?versio, from intr?vertere (“to turn within”), from Classical Latin intro- (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Equivalent to introvert +? -sion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nt????v????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?nt???v????n/, /?nt???v????n/, /?nt?o??v????n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??n

Noun

introversion (usually uncountable, plural introversions)

1. A turning inward, particularly:
   • 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Vol. II, p. 186:

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

   1. The action of turning one's thoughts upon internal or spiritual matters.
      • 1654, Thomas Gataker, A Discours Apologetical, p. 68:

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

      • 1788, John Wesley, Works, Vol. VI, p. 451:

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

      • 1870, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows, p. 214:

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

   2. (psychology) A personality orientation towards the self and mental abstraction; behavior expressing such orientation.
      • 1912, Trigant Burrow, "Conscious and Unconscious Mentation from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint", Psychological Bulletin, No. 9, p. 159:

        ...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.

      • 1915, Carl Jung, "On Psychological Understanding", Journal of Abnormal Psychology, No. 9, p. 396:

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

      • 1955 March 19, Science News-Letter, p. 185:

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

      • 1964, John Michael Argyle, Psychology & Social Problems, p. 75:

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

   3. (poetry and literature) Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.
      • 1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, p. 50:

        Such introversion is merely a matter of form.

Antonyms

• extroversion

Translations

References

• “introversion, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1900
• “introversion”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).