Meaning of introversion in English
(Definition of introversion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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For instance, creative ability is associated with extreme independence, nonconformity, and introversion, which would undermine the individual's adaptation to social norms and expectations.
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English history has always been a counterpoint of cosmopolitanism and introversion, both themes being present together.
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Everything is here: surprise, dismay, complacency, botched-up appearances, introversion, ego split, and unhealthy spirituality.
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One group had more troubled childhoods and scored relatively high on measures of social introversion and fear fulness 0 anxiety.
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The exploration of form carried with it a danger of introversion, and of indifference to the actual conditions of society.
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The questionnaire yields 22 scale scores, which measure a variety of child attributes, such as intelligence, creativity, task orientation, hyperactivity, introversion, extroversion, and social skills.
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Subsequently, historians did not hesitate to analyse the consequences of this form of introversion.
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This forced introversion led to even greater sectarian division, springing up from below as well as being codified from above.
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Loving and punishing parental behavior and introversion tendences in sons.
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As far as psychological type is concerned, the combination of sensing and judgement, together with introversion, was clearly overrepresented among the language learners with good and very good course grades.
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Good behaviour is taught and measured by others, whereas bad behaviour may grow in perverse isolation, feeding on its own introversion.
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If our constituents heard this debate, they would be amazed at its self-absorption and introversion.
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It is a remarkable case of political schizophrenia, which is a state of mind marked by introversion and loss of connection between thoughts, feelings and action.
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In contrast to introversion, a nonpathological dimension of human personality, social anhedonia represents a deficit in the ability to experience pleasure.
Creative workers are also commonly characterized as highly valuing their autonomy; additional dispositional attributes include openness, flexibility, cognitive complexity, self-confidence, dominance, and introversion.
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