extroversion

Meanings

1. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert
2. Consideration of the material world as an aid to spiritual insight.
3. The condition of being inside out, especially in relation to the bladder.
4. A personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation.

Etymology

From extro- + -version. As a variant of extraversion, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's use of the (then nonstandard) spelling extrovert in her publication "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte" (1918).