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introversion|ɪntrəʊˈvɜːʃən|
[ad. mod.L. intrōversiōn-em, n. of action from *intrōvertĕre: see introvert v.]
1. a. The action of turning the thoughts inwards, i.e. to one's own mind or soul, or to the contemplation of inward or spiritual things.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 68 Their..Fastings, Prayings,..Introversions,..Humiliations, Mortifications. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers xi. §16. 380 They plentifully assert this inward Introversion and Abstraction of the Mind..from all Images and Thoughts. 1788Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 451 The attending to the voice of Christ within you is what they [the Mystics] term Introversion. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 214 Hamlet, who so perfectly typifies the introversion and complexity of modern thought as compared with ancient.
b. The tendency to turn psychic energy inwards and to withdraw from the external world; opp. extraversion 2, extroversion 3.
1912Psychol. Bull. IX. 159 So that when in later life there occurs an introversion (in the sense of Jung), it consists of a harking back to regressive, reminiscent, infantile material. 1915, etc. [see extraversion 2]. 1935C. G. Jung Analytical Psychol. (1968) ii. 41 The psychological mechanism of introversion of the conscious mind into the deeper layers of the unconscious psyche. 1955Sci. News Let. 19 Mar. 185/2 Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 75 Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.
2. a. The action of (physically) turning inwards, esp. of withdrawing an outer part into the interior; the condition of being so turned inwards.
1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) III. 297 This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid. 1883E. Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 652/1 (Mollusca) The process of incomplete introversion of that simple rostrum. Ibid., The process either of introversion or of eversion of the tube may be arrested at any point.
b. Of lines of verse: see introverted 2 b.
1896R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible i. 50 Such introversion is merely a matter of form. |