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ambiversion

Syllables: am·bi·ver·sionUK/æmbɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/US/ˌæmbəˈvɚʃən/

ambiversion noun: a personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.

Noun

ambiversion (uncountable)

  1. A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
    • The definition of ambiversion grows then directly out of the two preceding [extroversion and introversion] and is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective...1923 January–March, Edmund S. Conklin, “The Definition of Introversion, Extroversion and Allied Concepts”, in Morton Prince, Floyd H[enry] Allport, editors, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and...

ambiversion meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Vietnamese

ambiversion in Tamil

இருமுகப்போக்குடைய ஆளுமைக்கூறு

ambiversion in Kannada

ಇರ್ಗಣ್ಣಿಗತನ, ಇರ‍್ಪರಿಚಿಗತನ

ambiversion in Vietnamese

personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion
hướng trung

Origin of ambiversion

From ambi (“both ways”) + -version (“turning”) (ultimately from Latin vertō (“to turn; to turn around”)), modelled after extroversion and introversion.

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Words that rhyme with ambiversion

Questions about ambiversion

What does ambiversion mean?
Ambiversion means a personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
What is ambiversion in Tamil?
Ambiversion in Tamil is இருமுகப்போக்குடைய ஆளுமைக்கூறு. See Ambiversion meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ambiversion?
Ambiversion is a noun.
How do you pronounce ambiversion?
Ambiversion is pronounced /æmbɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/ (UK).

Words near ambiversion in the dictionary

  1. ambivalences
  2. ambivalencies
  3. ambivalency
  4. ambivalent
  5. ambivalently
  6. ambiversion
  7. ambivert
  8. ambiverted
  9. ambivertedness
  10. ambiverts
  11. ambivore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ambiversion (page history and authors); ambiversion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambiversion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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