word | extrovert |
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definition | A person mainly concerned with things outside him- or herself; a sociable and outgoing person. |
eg_sentence | These parties are always full of loud extroverts, and I always find myself hiding in a corner with my drink. |
explanation | Extrovert (sometimes spelled extravert) means basically “turned outward”—that is, toward things outside oneself. The word was coined by the eminent psychologist C. G. Jung in the early 20th century. The opposite personality type, in Jung's view, was the introvert. Extroverts seem to be favored by societies such as ours, even though introverts seem to be on average more mentally gifted. Psychologists have said that the only personality traits that can be identified in newborn infants are shyness and lack of shyness, which are fairly close to—but not really the same as—introversion and extroversion |
IPA | ˈɛkstrəˌvərt |
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