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Recent Examples of introversion
This is perhaps best understood in terms of one of the Big Five Personality traits – introversion and extraversion – as many people have come to realize that there are individual differences, but one is not inherently better than the other.
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Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The deep introversion Pet Sounds communicates was the result of this process, spurred on in part by Wilson's worsening mental health, affected by both drug use and the feeling that the pop world that had granted him power no longer had room for his dreams.
—Ann Powers, NPR, 11 June 2025
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Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The deep introversion Pet Sounds communicates was the result of this process, spurred on in part by Wilson's worsening mental health, affected by both drug use and the feeling that the pop world that had granted him power no longer had room for his dreams.
—Ann Powers, NPR, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for introversion
- self-absorption
- self-analysis
- self-consciousness
- self-awareness
- introspection
- self-involvement
- self-recognition
- self-centeredness
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Frost’s well is a modern version of Narcissus’ pool, and his poem is a meditation on self-absorption and its limits.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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With a mind engaged in varied tasks, the time dedicated to art becomes sharper, less prone to the debilitating self-analysis that can derail artistic momentum.—
Kice Akkawi,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
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Mills, a longtime associate of Fiona Apple, knows this territory well: the pointed self-analysis of an extremely sensitive person.—
Jenn Pelly,
Time,
7 June 2025
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Jean’s mama, in a kente-print muumuu (as much out of self-consciousness about middle-aged weight gain, Jean figured, as in celebration of the day), hovered nearby, smiling on.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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The people around me shouted with such purity of rage, such absence of self-consciousness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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This is a month of deep self-awareness and transformation.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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In fact, moving in your 30s or later has advantages, since people tend to arrive with more financial stability, better self-awareness, and the wisdom to navigate challenges with perspective.—
Cepee Tabibian,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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However, the song isn’t really a diss track towards Taylor, but rather an introspection song for Charli.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
3 Oct. 2025
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Many observers fast from food and water for 25 hours to facilitate deep introspection.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Wettig noted in an August 2009 interview with NPR that though Thirtysomething's characters were often accused of being narcissistic by critics, their self-involvement was also reflective of the time.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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In terms that viewers of the original series might understand, Esmeralda falls somewhere between the tyranny of Michael Scott, the absurdity of Dwight Schrute, and the self-involvement of Kelly Kapoor with a particular charisma that only Impacciatore could pull off.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Whether or not dogs have awareness of themselves as an individual and any sort of mirror self-recognition is still up for debate.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Aug. 2025
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Like any literary work, the individual critical voice finds its echoes in the world at large, in readers’ self-recognition, in a sense of community.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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This is different from egoism and self-centeredness.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Introversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introversion. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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