different between openness vs extraversion

English

Etymology

From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).

Noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

1. Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
2. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
3. Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
4. (computing, education) degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.
5. (systems theory) The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.

Synonyms

• (accommodating attitude or opinion): open-mindedness, approachability

Translations

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