different between extroverted vs congenial

English

Alternative forms

• (psychology): extraverted, extrovert

Etymology

A variant spelling of extraverted. Popularized as a psychological term by Phyllis Blanchard's use of extrovert in her 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte".

Pronunciation

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

Verb

extroverted

1. simple past tense and past participle of extrovert

Adjective

extroverted (comparative more extroverted, superlative most extroverted)

1. Turned or thrust outwards, especially:
   • 1671, John Webster, Metallographa, p. 197:

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

   1. (informal psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.

      She's very extroverted. She's always out meeting new people and looking for new experiences.

   2. (medicine) Synonym of inside-out.

      ...an extroverted bladder...

Usage notes

Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer extraverted, although the spelling extroverted has become more common in general use.

Synonyms

• extrorse (botany)

Antonyms

• introverted

Translations

References

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

English

Etymology

con- +? genial

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k?n?d??i?ni?l/

Adjective

congenial (comparative more congenial, superlative most congenial)

1. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:

     No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

2. Friendly or sociable.

   The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.

3. Suitable to one’s needs.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page 453-468:

     What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?

Antonyms

• uncongenial

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Anagrams

• conga line