Definitions
A person who tends to be inward-focused and reserved.
Word origin
From New Latin intrōvertere, from intro- (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung. By surface analysis, intro- + -vert.
Used in a sentence
“Important distinctions which obtain amongst the various ‘introverts’ or intro- and e-versible tubes so frequently met with in animal bodies.”
“When a peanut worm feeds, it extends and waves its introvert so that the mouth at the tip wanders across the seabed.”
“The introvert is everted by hydraulic pressure exerted by contraction of body muscles on the coelomic fluid.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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