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extrospective

extrospective adjective: involving extrospection.

Adjective

extrospective (comparative more extrospective, superlative most extrospective)

  1. Involving extrospection.
    • In short, the physician shifts from proceeding mostly by the extrospective route toward a combined extrospective and introspective approach toward the patient as a whole human being, thus building toward a person to person, doctor-patient relationship.1982, Adrian C. Moulyn, The Meaning of Suffering, page 57
    • When it comes to understanding the subjective self, Kohut (1959) sees the introspective and extrospective methods as unequal in value.2013, Ronald R. Lee, J. Colby Martin, Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology, page 107

Forms of extrospective

comparativemore extrospective
superlativemost extrospective

Origin of extrospective

From extrospect + -ive.

Questions about extrospective

What does extrospective mean?
Extrospective means involving extrospection.
What part of speech is extrospective?
Extrospective is an adjective.

Words near extrospective in the dictionary

  1. extrospect
  2. extrospected
  3. extrospecting
  4. extrospection
  5. extrospections
  6. extrospective
  7. extrospects
  8. extroversible
  9. extroversion
  10. extroversions
  11. extroversive

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