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Definition of Introversion

1. Noun. The condition of being folded inward or sheathed.

2. Noun. The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface. "The invagination of the blastula"

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

Definition of Introversion

1. n. The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.

Definition of Introversion

1. Noun. (psychology) The act or process of introverting or the quality of being introverted; the quality of focusing on one's own interests, thoughts, and feelings ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Introversion

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Introversion

1. A state in which attention is largely directed inward upon one's self. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Introversion

introspectionists introspections introspective introspective method introspective sort introspectively introspectiveness introspects introsume introsumed

introsumes introsuming introsusception introuvable introvenient introversion (current term) introversions introversive introversively introvert

introverted introvertedly introverting introvertish introvertive introvertly introverts intrudable intrude intrude into

Literary usage of Introversion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism by Herbert Silberer (1917)
"B. EFFECTS OF introversion introversion is no child's play. ... Whoever submits to introversion arrives at a point where two ways part; and there he must ..."

2. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"... X EXTROVERSION AND introversion There have been a number of efforts to classify men according to their temperament or their way of orienting themselves ..."

3. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"... of this species may be compared to the introversion and extension of the fingers of a glove. The thickened and tubular basal parts, with the fine, ..."

4. Man and His Relations: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body by Samuel Byron Brittan (1875)
"introversion of the Mind—Ideal and practical Men—Facts universally per ceived—Principles seldom comprehended—Analytical and synthetical Powers—Vulgar ..."

5. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"X.—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TYPES OF introversion AND EXTROVERSION IN THE ANALYTICAL PROCESS. The description of the analysis of the unconscious would be ..."

6. Familiar Letters of Ann Willson by Ann Willson (1850)
"... is an introversion of mind, and attention to internal teachings, similar to the desire of the disciples, to follow their Leader in his goings and ascent ..."

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