introversion — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A turning inward, particularly

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid.

2. A turning inward The action of turning one's thoughts upon internal or spiritual matters.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   ...their... Fastings, Prayings,... Introversions,... Humiliations, Mortifications...

   The attending to the voice of Christ within you is what [mystics] term Introversion.

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   ... Hamlet, who so perfectly typifies the introversion and complexity of modern thought as compared with ancient...

3. A turning inward A personality orientation towards the self and mental abstraction; behavior expressing such orientation.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   ...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.

   I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.

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   Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion.

   Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.

   The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism.

4. A turning inward Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   Such introversion is merely a matter of form.

Noun

1. the condition of being folded inward or sheathed

   Synonyms

   invagination

   Broader terms

   condition

2. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

   Synonyms

   invaginationintussusceptioninfolding

   Broader terms

   organic processbiological process

   Examples

   the invagination of the blastula

3. (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings

   Antonyms

   ambiversionextraversion

   Broader terms

   unsociabilityunsociableness