extravert

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  extravert    extrovert  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extravert

▶noun variant spelling of extrovert.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extrovert /ˈɛkstrəvəːt/ (also chiefly Psychology extravert)

▶noun an outgoing, socially confident person.

■ Psychology a person predominantly concerned with external things or objective considerations.

Compare with introvert. ▶adjective relating to or denoting an extrovert.

– derivatives
extroversion noun,
extroverted adjective.

– origin early 20th cent. (earlier (C17) as extroversion): from extro- (var. of extra-) + L. vertere ‘to turn’.