introvertedadj.
/ɪntrəʊˈvəːtɪd/ Turned inwards.
1. Of the mind or thought: Directed inwards upon itself, or upon that which is inward or spiritual. Also transferred of a person: Given to introversion of mind (esp. in Psychology).
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the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > [adjective]
self-reflexivea1651
self-reflective1670
introverted1782
introspective1819
subjective1836
introvertive1864
introversive1884
the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > introspection > [adjective]
soul-searching1591
heart-searching1600
self-searching1612
introverted1782
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > [adjective] > turned inward
reflexed1595
reflexive1615
reflex1625
reflexible?1642
reflect1647
introverted1782
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > retiring or withdrawn
soleinc1450
retiring1566
retireda1616
oyster-like1665
squab1689
shy of oneself1722
indrawn1751
introverted1850
background1896
retreative1898
introvert1916
introversive1923
withdrawn1932
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > transfer of feelings > turning inwards > [adjective]
introverted1915
introversive1923
cerebrotonic1937
introvertish1946
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 230 Self-searching with an introverted eye.
1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 100 In modern times, no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred, as in Emanuel Swedenborg.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 16 So that his mysticus is emphatically the enclosed, self-withdrawn, introverted man.
1866 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes 125 In morals, in religion, too, the same introverted scrutiny detects only errors and evils, till all life seems to them a miserable, hopeless failure.
1915 C. G. Jung in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 9 397 An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.
1916 C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. 348 The introverted type is characterised by the fact that his libido is turned towards his own personality to a certain extent.
1923 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. Any one of these will display either the introverted or the extroverted attitude.
1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. 114 When these [sc. dispositional factors] are present in sufficient strength there arises the danger of the libido becoming introverted.
1957 H. J. Eysenck Dynamics Anxiety & Hysteria i. 31 We may take dysthymics on the one hand, and hysterics and psychopaths on the other, as examples of our introverted and extroverted groups.
1968 C. Rycroft Crit. Dict. Psychoanal. 48 There is a tendency to equate ‘introverted’ with ‘withdrawn’ or ‘schizoid’.
1974 Country Life 17 Jan. 76/3 Dorothy Osborne... This witty and introverted girl.
2.
a. Turned or bent inwards (physically).
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having inward direction > turned or turning inwards
inversed1569
inbenta1586
introverted1785
inturned1858
introversive1866
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 633 His awkward gait, his introverted toes, Bent knees, round shoulders, and dejected looks.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. i. ii. 25 The skin, including those introverted portions of it which form the receptive area of the special senses.
b. Applied to an arrangement of words, lines of verse, etc. in which two corresponding elements (e.g. lines rhyming with each other) form the inner or middle part of the whole.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [adjective] > (with introversion of corresponding elements)0
introverse1879
introverted1896
1896 R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible i. 50 In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth.
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