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Concern with one's own thoughts and feelings
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introversion
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the condition of being folded inward or sheathed [syn: invagination ] the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn: invagination , intussusception , infolding ] (psychology) an introverted ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, of thought or contemplation, from Modern Latin introversionem , noun of action from past participle stem of *introvertere (see introvert ). Meaning "tendency to withdraw from the world" is from 1912.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context psychology English) The act or process of introverting or the quality of being introverted; the quality of focusing on one's own interests, thoughts, and feelings
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Introversion is the sixth album by EBM group A Split-Second . It consists of unreleased and live material.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Introversion \In`tro*ver"sion\, n. [See Introvert .] The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. --Berkeley.
Usage examples of introversion.
Are we to think that a being knowing itself must contain diversity, that self-knowledge can be affirmed only when some one phase of the self perceives other phases, and that therefore an absolutely simplex entity would be equally incapable of introversion and of self-awareness?
As a writer he was wholly untrained, but with all his introversions and obscurities he is the most readable chronicler of his time, the most amusing and as untrustworthy as any.