introversion
noun
the act of introverting or the state of being introverted; a turning inward.
introversive
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a word derived from
introversion.
Example Sentences
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He is jealous of his wife's bridge clubs, golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is introversive rather than out-going in type.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
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
