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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self [syn: extraversion, extroversion] [ant: ambiversion, introversion]

Merriam Webster's

or extraversion noun Etymology: German Extraversion, from Latin extra- + versus, past participle of vertere to turn — more at worth Date: 1915 the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Extroversion Ex`tro*ver"sion, n. [See Extrorse.] The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. --Dunglison.

Moby Thesaurus

accessibility, ambiversion, approachability, candor, communicativeness, complexion, conversableness, cycloid personality, cyclothymia, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, endomorphism, endomorphy, extrovertedness, frankness, freeness, humor, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, mesomorphism, mesomorphy, openness, other-directedness, outgoingness, outspokenness, personality tendency, plainness, plainspokenness, schizoid personality, schizothymia, sociability, somatotype, syntony, talkativeness, unconstraint, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsuppression, untaciturnity