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Definition of Extrospective
1. Adjective. Not introspective; examining what is outside yourself.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extrospective
Literary usage of Extrospective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conflict of Duties by Alice Gardner (1903)
"two methods of moral improvement which belong respectively to the introspective
and to the extrospective ways of regarding life and duty: the method of ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"The balance between the introspective and the 'extrospective' methods is, so far
as can be judged, well preserved, and the author's breadth of view and ..."
3. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1893)
"... the superior strength and applicability to our times of the moral psychological
proofs for God's existence as compared with the extrospective arguments, ..."
4. Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge by Roy Wood Sellars (1916)
"... however, is the knowledge he thus achieves, from the field of an individual's
experiencing as this exists while the individual is extrospective. ..."
5. Science and Life: Aberdeen Adresses by Frederick Soddy (1920)
"... of the new knowledge, won and being won by the perfection of the extrospective
or experimental method, is producing a luxuriant, if tangled, growth. ..."
6. General Types of Superior Men: A Philosophico-psychological Study of Genius by Osias L. Schwarz (1916)
"... conceptual standing ground, do not forget, and do not lose the connection with
the lower, objective, extrospective, perceptual standing ground. ..."
7. The Pericosmic Theory of Physical Existence and Its Sequel Preliminary to by George Stearns (1888)
"... with those of science, making the lessons of insight or introspective observation
of the same validity as those of sight or extrospective observation. ..."
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