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ambiversion Psychol.|æmbɪˈvɜːʃən|
[f. ambi- + L. versiōn-em, n. of action f. vertĕre to turn; cf. extroversion 3, introversion.]
A mental condition characterized by a balance of extravert and introvert features. Hence ˈambivert, a person whose mind is so formed. Also ˈambiverted a.
1927K. Young Source Bk. Social Psychol. iii. xv. 399 People who..are both extroverted and introverted... I shall..call them ambiverted. Ibid. 401 These I have called ambiverts. Ibid. 402 The definition of ambiversion..is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective conditions is so varied as to make possible..prolonged periods of either extroversion or introversion. 1930R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 8) xiii. 558 People fall into the two opposed types of introvert and extrovert with an intervening group of ambiverts. |