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extroitive

extroitive adjective: seeking or going out after external objects.

Adjective

extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Seeking or going out after external objects.
    • For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
    • extroitive conduct

Antonyms of extroitive

Forms of extroitive

comparativemore extroitive
superlativemost extroitive

Origin of extroitive

From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).

Questions about extroitive

What does extroitive mean?
Extroitive means seeking or going out after external objects.
What part of speech is extroitive?
Extroitive is an adjective.

Words near extroitive in the dictionary

  1. extro-
  2. extroceptive
  3. extrodinary
  4. extroflection
  5. extroflections
  6. extroitive
  7. extrolite
  8. extrolites
  9. extron
  10. extrons
  11. extropia

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