Extraversionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

extraversion (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 extraversions)

1. Alternative spelling of extroversion
   • 1675, Robert Boyle, "Of the Imperfection of the Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities", The Mechanical Origine or Production of Corrosiveness and Corrosibility, p. 36:

     ...the supposed Extraversion or Intraversion of Sulphur...

   • 1915, Carl Jung, "On Psychological Understanding", Journal of Abnormal Psychology, No. 9, p. 396:

     I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.

使用する際の注意点

Technical papers in psychology still prefer the variant extraversion used by Carl Jung, although the spelling extroversion is more common in general use.

派生語

• extraversive, extravert, extraverted

参照

• “extraversion, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894.