INTROVERSION


Meaning of INTROVERSION in English

|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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.