Crossword-Solution: INTROVERSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Introversion | n. | The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “INTROVERSION”
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| Draft of a prologue? | 1 answer |
| Withdrawal into oneself. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with INTROVERSION (5)
How many revisions were there! How many attempts to catch an expression which I had seen the day before! How often did we try to get the old position, and wait for the return of the same light! There was a puckering up of the lips, a cautious introversion of the eye under the shadow of the bonnet, indicative of the feebleness and suspicion of old age, which at last we managed, after many trials and some quarrels, to a tolerable nicety.
Alas for the ruin that waits upon her footsteps! The day that followed this night of reconciliation had many hours of sober introversion of thought for both Emerson and his wife; hours in which memory reproduced language, conduct and sentiments that could not be dwelt upon without painful misgivings for the future.
Besides the amusements earlier mentioned, I propose that our perfected scheme shall contain every thing necessary to make the social life in-doors a delightful refuge, to all far enough advanced to take pleasure in society, from the dejection and introversion peculiarly characteristic of opium's revenges.
One would tend to agree with Freud, though, that when introversion becomes a permanent feature of the psychic landscape of a person - it facilitates pathological narcissism.
According to him, not only is introversion a totally normal and natural function, it remains normal and natural even if it predominates the mental life.
Quotes with INTROVERSION (3)
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured... Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
The body, I started to learn, was not a secondary entity. The mind contained very few truths that the body withheld. There was little of import in an encounter between two bodies that would fail to be revealed rather quickly. The epistolary run up to the date only rarely revealed the truth of a man's good humor or introversion, his anxiety or social grace. Until the bodies were introduced, seduction was only provisional.
To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection, that morbidly exaggerated prying into one's own vitals — and the vitals of others — which Robinson Jeffers has so aptly symbolized as "incest." What we need is less "human interest," in the narrow sense of the term — not more. Physiological — and even psychological analysis …
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1969–2008).