different between extravert vs extrovert

English

Etymology

As a verb, from New Latin extr?vert?, from Classical Latin extr?- (“outside”) + vert? (“to turn”). As a noun and adjective, a back-formation from extraversion. Popularized in psychology by translations of German works by Carl Jung.

Noun

extravert (plural extraverts)

1. Alternative spelling of extrovert
   • 1916, Constance Ellen Long trans. Carl Jung as Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, p. 349:

     An Extravert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.

Usage notes

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

Adjective

extravert (comparative more extravert, superlative most extravert)

1. Alternative spelling of extrovert
   • 1924, A.G. Ikin, The British Journal of Medical Psychology, No. 4, p. 214:

     The personality which thus combines introvert and extravert reactions... can be... called an ‘altrovert’...

Verb

extravert (third-person singular simple present extraverts, present participle extraverting, simple past and past participle extraverted)

1. Alternative spelling of extrovert, especially (early chemistry, obsolete) so as to be visible.
   • 1669, William Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica, p. 52:

     It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals.

   • 1915, Carl Jung, "On Psychological Understanding", Journal of Abnormal Psychology, No. 9, p. 397:

     An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.

References

• “extra'version, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894
• “† extra'vert, v.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894

English

Alternative forms

• extravert (proper)

Etymology

A variant spelling (initially nonstandard) of extravert popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", equivalent to extro- +? vert.

Pronunciation 1

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??kst??v??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??kst???v??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

extrovert (plural extroverts)

1. (informal psychology) An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.
   • 1918 April, Phyllis Blanchard, "A Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", American Journal of Psychology, p. 163:

     In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type.

Usage notes

Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer extravert, the variant used by Carl Jung, although the spelling extrovert is more common in general use.

Antonyms

• introvert

Related terms

• ambivert
• extroverted
• extroversion

Translations

Adjective

extrovert (comparative more extrovert, superlative most extrovert)

1. (informal psychology) Alternative form of extroverted: outgoing.

Pronunciation 2

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kst????v??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kst?o??v??t/

Verb

extrovert (third-person singular simple present extroverts, present participle extroverting, simple past and past participle extroverted)

1. (transitive) To turn or thrust outwards.
   • 1671, John Webster, Metallographia, p. 197:

     The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.

References

• “extrovert, v.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894
• “extrovert, n. (and adj.).”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1933
• Scott Barry Kaufman, "The Difference between ExtrAversion and ExtrOversion", Beautiful Minds, Scientific American, Springer Nature America, 2015.

Czech

Noun

extrovert m

1. (psychology) extrovert

Antonyms

• introvert m

Derived terms

• extrovertní

Related terms

• See verš
• extroverze f