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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Interest in or behavior directed toward others or one's environment rather than oneself.
  • noun A turning inside out, as of an organ or part.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, a turning inside out, as of the eyelids (see eversion) or of the bladder—in the latter case, a congenital malformation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The condition of being turned wrong side out.
  • noun (Psychol.) the trait of being interested primarily in things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings.
  • noun (Psychol.) the act of directing one's interests primarily toward things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun psychology Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
  • noun The condition of being extrorse, or turned wrong side out.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self

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