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- a shy, reticent, and typically self-centred person性格内向的人。
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- Psychology a person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things【心理】内向性格者。比较 EXTROVERT.
- another term for INTROVERTED.
派生词
introversion
nounintroversive
/ˌɪntrəʊˈvɜːsɪv/ adjective词源
mid 17th cent. （as a verb in the general sense 'turn one's thoughts inwards (in spiritual contemplation)'）： from modern Latin introvertere, from intro- 'to the inside' + vertere 'to turn'. Its use as a term in psychology dates from the early 20th cent.