1.
[syn: extraversion, extroversion]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
extroversion \ex`tro*ver"sion\, n. [See Extrorse.]
1. The condition of being turned wrong side out; as,
extroversion of the bladder. --Dunglison.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Psychol.) the trait of being interested primarily in
things in one's external environement, rather than one's
own thoughts and feelings.
[PJC]
3. (Psychol.) the act of directing one's interests primarily
toward things in one's external environement, rather than
one's own thoughts and feelings.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
extroversion
n 1: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what
is outside the self [syn: extraversion, extroversion]
[ant: ambiversion, introversion]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "extroversion":
accessibility, ambiversion, approachability, candor,
communicativeness, complexion, conversableness,
cycloid personality, cyclothymia, ectomorphism, ectomorphy,
endomorphism, endomorphy, extrovertedness, frankness, freeness,
humor, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, mesomorphism,
mesomorphy, openness, other-directedness, outgoingness,
outspokenness, personality tendency, plainness, plainspokenness,
schizoid personality, schizothymia, sociability, somatotype,
syntony, talkativeness, unconstraint, unrepression, unreserve,
unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence,
unsecretiveness, unsuppression, untaciturnity