Other forms: extroverts
An extrovert is someone who gains energy from being with people. A natural extrovert, extroverts and introverts, she is an extrovert.
The pair is Jung's, and the point is where energy comes from rather than whether somebody is shy — a confident person who needs solitude to recharge is an introvert. Most people sit in the middle. The older spelling was extravert, changed to match introvert.
1nounextrovertSomeone who gains energy from being with people.
“She's a real extrovert who loves parties and chats to everyone she meets.”
extrovert is a type of person.
From extra-, outside, plus Latin vertere, to turn. The spelling shifted from extravert to match introvert.
German
Extravert
English, today
extrovert
Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". by surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA