How to Use extroversion in a Sentence

extroversion

noun
  • For those who stick with it, the study of the craft takes over; the extroversion turns inward.
    Susan Dominus Collier Schorr Jay Massacret, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This time, the test told me that my extroversion had increased, going from the 23rd percentile to the 33rd.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, her extroversion is what got her discovered in the first place.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2019
  • That required a certain amount of extroversion in my style.
    oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Wearing these looks almost feels like a shortcut to extroversion for her.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Mr. Ocean presents himself not as an artist, per se, but as an art student, a hermit laboring in a business that runs on extroversion.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
  • But that doesn't mean the benefits of extroversion are off-limits for introverts.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But the album’s extroversion in no way diminishes the exploratory vibe always at the heart of the bass clarinetist’s longest-running group.
    Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 17 May 2018
  • If not the last word in extroversion, there was nonetheless electric quick playing and a tender sweetness in the final bars that proved especially poignant.
    Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
    Mary Ann Gwinn, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • In England, where his was one of the few families of color in the area, Mr. Chawawa stifled his natural extroversion, which had been encouraged in Zimbabwe.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The youngest enjoys cooking and performing arts, falls in the middle of the extroversion spectrum, and eschewed the team sports his older brothers participated in.
    Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • What an extroversion type may view as a welcome break (such as impromptu IM chat) might be disruptive to someone who prefers introversion.
    Sherrie Haynie, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Not everybody's going to find the G90 handsome, but its confident extroversion seems to provoke a begrudging admiration even in those who find the wheels or the grille a bit too up-and-coming strongman for their taste.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Those with the capacity for extroversion may now spend summer shaking off the dust that’s accumulated on their social lives.
    Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
  • But as a study published in January suggests, other traits appear to be more important than extroversion.
    Andreas Kluth, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • Anyone who’s watched Schumer’s comedy or followed her on social media knows that her extreme honesty comes not just from extroversion but also from a desire to connect.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 July 2020
  • Your charisma, extroversion, spunk and eagerness to make everyone around you feel safe, welcomed and included.
    Dallas News, 4 July 2022
  • In leading your team through these times, keep in mind that those who prefer introversion may feel just as isolated and frustrated with the current situation as those who prefer extroversion.
    Sherrie Haynie, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Each of the 33 baseline studies identified large numbers of SNPs that had positive or negative effects on a particular trait: extroversion, heart disease, height, body fat, age at menopause, recreational drug use and so on.
    The Economist, 23 Oct. 2019
  • People who are high in extroversion tend to seek out social stimulation and opportunities to engage with others.
    Regan Hillyer, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • The test relies on the premise of four categories: introversion or extroversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving.
    Carla Delgado, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2021
  • An important 2009 study considered both neuroticism and low extroversion to be risk factors for depression.
    Naomi Weinshenker, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Linguistic information from users’ status updates, messages and comments could be scored for traits like conscientiousness or extroversion in order to select ads or news stories, the BBC says.
    Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Affiliative and self-enhancing humor are both linked to extroversion.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Psychologist Carl Jung was the first to introduce the concept of introversion versus extroversion in the 1920’s that has now become one of the most mainstream ways of categorizing personality types.
    Goldie Chan, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • No other art form brings together fashion, beauty, comedy, and movement in quite the same manner or requires the same challenging mix of vulnerability and extroversion.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • Introversion versus extroversion was getting an increasing amount of attention as more people identified as one or the other.
    Tiffany Philippou, refinery29.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Carbino also finds the binary nature of the test’s results problematic — introversion versus extroversion — since very rarely is personality so black and white.
    Allie Volpe, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Their test posits that each person leans toward either extroversion or introversion; sensing or intuition; thinking or feeling; and judging or perceiving.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 July 2022

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