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Definition of extroversion
: the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self
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Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
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Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
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Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
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Some songs hark back to the plush extroversion of 1960s and 1970s pop.
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Mr. Ocean presents himself not as an artist, per se, but as an art student, a hermit laboring in a business that runs on extroversion.
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A commonality among the high achievers was conscientiousness, ahead of extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness.
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Origin and Etymology of extroversion
German Extraversion, from Latin extra- + versus, past participle of vertere to turn — more at worth
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extroversion
noun
ex·tro·ver·sion
Medical Definition of extroversion
: the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self—compare introversion
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