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/ˌɪntɹəvˈɜːʃən/
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NOUN
- the condition of being folded inward or sheathed
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the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
the invagination of the blastula - (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings
How To Use introversion In A Sentence
- It's generally thought that shyness goes hand in hand with introversion, but many introverts simply prefer solitary to social activities.
- A personality trait including the qualities of both introversion and extroversion.
- You may trot around with a silver bunch of grapes on your lapel, peddling intoxicants to expense-account tosspots and huff when I quibble at the mark-up but I have just published the novelistic fruit of 35 years of miserable introversion.
- More recently, during World War II, Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Meyers, used Jung's typological theories to develop the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, which classifies people according to opposing traits such as extraversion vs. introversion, and judging vs. perceiving. You Are What You Keep
- In 1910 Jung published a paper entitled, "Psychic Conflicts in a Child," in which he introduced the term "introversion" for the first time. Dr. Andrew Lange: Recovery For Introverts
- The paranoia reading was low for someone with the prisoner's apparent intelligence, nor had he scored high in psychopathic deviation, schizophrenia, hypomania, depression, hysteria, masculinity/femininity, psychasthenia, or social introversion. The Girls He Adored
- Introversion and a tear-stained face had now replaced her outgoing nature and perpetual smile.
- Researchers measured extraversion and introversion among participants with a standard questionnaire and then compared extraverts to introverts by correlating the extraversion score to the strength of the positive-affect boost.
- Much of what happens in an office can be explained when we look at the personality types of ourselves and our co-workers, and especially the notion of introversion vs extroversion. D*I*Y Planner - Comments
- CONCLUSION The personality of neuroticism , psychoticism and introversion were most likely to have unhealthy mental reaction.