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/ˈɪntroʊvˌərtɪd/ Listen

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

... sentiment in the face of Morris as he gazed upon the dead. Gnawing his nails, with introverted eyes, his brow marked with the stamp of tragic indignation and tragic intellectual effort, he stood there silent. Here was a last injustice; he had been robbed while he was an orphan at school, he had been lashed to a decadent leather business, he had been saddled with ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... 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? ...

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