Of, relating to, or characteristic of an extrovert; tending to direct energy and attention toward other people and the external world.
From extrovert with the suffix -ive (meaning 'tending to' or 'characterized by'). The root extro- comes from Latin 'outward,' while vert- comes from Latin vertere 'to turn,' so literally 'turning outward.'
The -ive suffix is fascinating because it transforms nouns into adjectives that describe what something 'tends toward'—it's how we say not just 'what it is' but 'what it does.' This linguistic move mirrors how psychologists think about personality as active patterns rather than fixed labels.
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