Adjective
introverted (comparative more introverted, superlative most introverted)
- Turned or thrust inward, particularly:
- Thinking about internal or spiritual matters.
1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, l. 230:...Self-searching with an introverted eye...
- (psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an introvert: thoughtful, reflective.
1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 397:An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.
- 1916, Constance Ellen Long transl. Carl Jung as Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, p. 348
- The introverted type is characterised by the fact that his libido is turned towards his own personality to a certain extent.
1968, Charles Rycroft, A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, page 48:
- (poetry, literature) Arranged so that two similar words, lines, etc. form the middle of the structure.
1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth.
Translations
psychology: Of or characteristic of an introvert
- Arabic: اِنْطِوَائِيّ m (inṭiwāʔiyy)
- Belarusian: інтравертны (intravjertny)
- Bulgarian: интровертен (introverten)
- Catalan: introvertit
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 內向/内向 (zh) (nèixiàng)
- Danish: indadvendt
- Dutch: eenzelvig (nl), introvert (nl), in zichzelf gekeerd
- Finnish: introvertti (fi), sisäänpäinkääntynyt (fi), sulkeutunut (fi), sisäänpäinsuuntautunut
- French: introverti (fr)
- Galician: introvertido m, introvertida f
- German: introvertiert (de)
- Greek: εσωστρεφής (el) (esostrefís)
- Hungarian: introvertált (hu)
- Icelandic: innhverfur
- Italian: introverso (it)
- Japanese: 内向的 (ja) (naikōteki)
- Lithuanian: intravertiškas m
- Maori: nguengue
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: innadvendt (no), introvert
- Occitan: introvertit
- Portuguese: introvertido (pt) m, introvertida (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਅੰਤਰਮੁਖੀ (antarmukhī)
- Romanian: introvertit (ro) m
- Russian: интрове́ртный (ru) (introvértnyj), интроверти́рованный (ru) (introvertírovannyj)
- Spanish: introvertido (es)
- Swedish: inåtvänd (sv), introvert (sv)
- Tagalog: loobwili
- Vietnamese: tự kỉ (vi) (slang)
- Welsh: mewnblyg (cy)
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