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Introverted   Listen
adjective
introverted  adj.  
1.
Examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences. Contrasted with extrospective.
Synonyms: introspective.
2.
Marked by concern predominantly with oneself or one's own feelings. Contrasted with extroverted.
Synonyms: introvert, introvertive.





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"Introverted" Quotes from Famous Books



... cup. This action will stand for the process of invagination. Imagine that by continuance of it, the hemispherical cup becomes very much deepened and the opening narrowed, until the cup becomes a sac, of which the introverted wall is everywhere in contact with the outer wall. This will represent the two-layered "gastrula"—the simplest ancestral form of the Metazoa: a form which is permanently represented in some of the ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... Australia, or fight his country's enemies, is hard to discover. Hard indeed to discover how this most practical, and therefore most poetical, of ages, is to be "set to music," when all those who talk about so doing persist obstinately in poring, with introverted eyes, over the state ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... with the look often seen when people are struggling, with introverted effort, to disentangle a thought which is either too high for quick discernment or too ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace


Words linked to "Introverted" :   introspective, extrospective


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