Saturday, January 24, 2015

Word of the Day

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

It's the latest, and so, of course, I decided to try it on, and it did fit. I'm an ambivert .
-- James McCourt, "Time Remaining," 1993

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

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