extratensive

adjective

ex·​tra·​tensive

: showing a predominance of color responses on the Rorschach test and characterized by the urge to live in the world outside oneself, by restless motility, and by unstable affective reactions

—contrasted with introversive

Word History

Etymology

extra- + tensive

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