|in.trə|vər]zhən, -.trō|-, -və̄], -vəi] also ]sh- noun
( -s )
Etymology: intro- + -version (as in diversion )
1. : the act of introverting or the state of being introverted
economic introversion — Peter Schmid
an introversion and not an expansion — D.S.Savage
2.
a. : the act of directing one's attention toward or getting gratification from one's own thoughts and feelings and other intrapsychic experience
neurotic introversion — too much preoccupation with oneself — Irish Digest
— opposed to extroversion
b. : the state of being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own intrapsychic experience
c. : a habitual tendency toward such introversion