Dictionary

extroitive en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Seeking or going out after external objects.
   • extroitive conduct
   • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.

Forms

Antonyms

introitive

Relateds

extroverted