Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Ambivert

Word of the Day for Sunday 13th April 2014

Ambivert \AM-bi-vurt\
noun:
1. One whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert.

Quotes:
I'm a plain American ambivert...
-- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969

Origin:
Ambivert was coined in the 1920’s by Kimball Young in his book Source Book for Social Psychology as an extension of the terms introvert and extrovert.


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