The act or process of introverting or the condition of being introverted.
The state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life.
An attitude in which one directs one's interest to one's own experiences and feelings rather than to external objects or other persons.
An introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings.
More or less prolonged condition in which attention is controlled more by the subjective than by the objective conditions, and in which the content of the subjective conditions is of a more abstract nature and not so intimately related to the objective conditions.
Marked by interest in or preoccupation with oneself or one's own thoughts as opposed to others or the environment.
The act of directing one's attention toward or getting gratification from one's own interests, thoughts, and feelings.
Swiss Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Gustav Jung-- generally regarded as "the Father of psychological types"-- explained introversion as an "attitude-type" in which a person tends to focus inward, and derive their energy from going within to their own thoughts, rather than from external sources, such as people and events.
