introversion
noun
the act of introverting or the state of being introverted; a turning inward.
introversive
-
a word derived from
introversion.
Example Sentences
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Nonofficial Britons, congenitally introversive, tend to shrug off the whole business of U.S. criticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Symington himself was a complement to Tooey Spaatz, the imaginative, introversive man who was now chief of the Air Force and its real boss.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is jealous of his wife's bridge clubs, golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego.
From Time Magazine Archive
The introversive mystic, too, is destined to ‘sail the wild billows of the Sea Divine’; but here, in the deeps of his nature, he finds the door through which he must pass.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
It is introversive rather than out-going in type.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
