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extravert

extravert is the alternative spelling of extrovert.

Meaning of extrovert

Noun

extrovert (plural extroverts)

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

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Forms of extravert

Noun
pluralextraverts
Adjective
comparativemore extravert
superlativemost extravert
Verb
third-person singular presentextraverts
present participleextraverting
past participleextraverted
pastextraverted

Origin of extravert

As a verb, from New Latin extrāvertō, from Classical Latin extrā- (“outside”) + vertō (“to turn”). As a noun and adjective, a back-formation from extraversion. Popularized in psychology by translations of German works by Carl Jung. By surface analysis, extra- + -vert.

Words formed from extravert

Questions about extravert

What is extravert the alternative spelling of?
Extravert is the alternative spelling of extrovert.

Words near extravert in the dictionary

  1. extraventricular
  2. extraverbal
  3. extraverbally
  4. extraversion
  5. extraversions
  6. extravert
  7. extravertebral
  8. extraverted
  9. extravertedly
  10. extraverting
  11. extravertish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: extravert (page history and authors); extrovert (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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