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adjective

introverted adj.

Examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences. Contrasted with extrospective.

Synonyms: introspective.

Marked by concern predominantly with oneself or one's own feelings. Contrasted with extroverted.

Synonyms: introvert, introvertive.

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Etymology of 'Introverted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Introverted" Quotes from Famous Books

... admire the town. The great curiosities of Epernay, its glory and pomp, are not permitted to see the daylight. They are subterranean and introverted. They are the cellars. Those rich colonnades of Commerce street, all those porticoes surmounted with Greek or Roman triangles in the nature of pediments, of what antique religion are they the representations? They ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various

... intervals, I had the very useless, sometimes harmful, and invariably foolish habit of keeping a diary. To me, at least, it has been less foolish and harmful than to most; and out of it, together with much drawn out of the stores of a memory, made preternaturally vivid by a long introverted life, which, colourless itself, had nothing to do but to reflect and retain clear images of the lives around it—out of these two sources I have compiled the ...

— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Words linked to "Introverted" : extrospective, introspectiveness