extrovertとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A variant spelling (initially nonstandard) of extravert popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte".

発音

Noun/Adjective

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹəvəːt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹt/

Verb

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹt/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)t

名詞

extrovert (複数形 extroverts)

1. (informal psychology) An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.
   • 1918 April, Phyllis Blanchard, “A Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte”, in American Journal of Psychology, page 163:

     In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     He cannot find the fabled boatman, but he does come across the two stone images that belong to the boatman, and in rage and frustration, the great heroic extrovert, the man who is used to acting out whatever he feels inside, smashes the stones.

使用する際の注意点

Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer extravert, the variant used by Carl Jung, although the spelling extrovert is more common in general use.

反意語

• introvert

関連する語

• ambivert
• extroverted
• extroversion

形容詞

extrovert (comparative more extrovert, superlative most extrovert)

1. (informal psychology) Alternative form of extroverted: outgoing.

動詞

extrovert (三人称単数 現在形 extroverts, 現在分詞 extroverting, 過去形および過去分詞形 extroverted)

1. (transitive) To turn or thrust outwards.
   • 1671, John Webster, Metallographia, page 197:

     The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.

参照

• “extrovert, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894.
• “extrovert, n. (かつ adj.).”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1933.
• Scott Barry Kaufman, "The Difference between ExtrAversion and ExtrOversion", Beautiful Minds, Scientific American, Springer Nature America, 2015.