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Definition of Introvertive
1. Adjective. Directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings.
Attributes: Introversion
Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Similar to: Introvertish, Shut-in
Also: Unsociable
Antonyms: Ambiversive, Extroversive
Derivative terms: Introvert, Introvert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Introvertive
Literary usage of Introvertive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"Comte's introvertive tendencies served his purpose very well for nearly thirty
years, but he could not hope to escape forever the penalty which he was ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"She read you with introvertive eye from the tablets of her mind numbers of
thoughts, which seemed to my bewitched ears beautiful and original, upon poetry, ..."
3. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy by John Campbell Shairp (1886)
"in him from the first an intellectual necessity, was increased by the morbidly
introvertive turn of mind ..."
4. Representative Modern Preachers by Lewis Orsmond Brastow (1904)
"He was introvertive and sensitive and shy. " He would have shuddered at the very
thought of founding a sect or creating a schism," and " the natural ..."
5. Senescence, the Last Half of Life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... and not introvertive, just as the old were meant to be. Thus the old need a
higher kind and degree of self- knowledge than they have yet attained. ..."
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