a shy, reticent, and typically self-centred person 性格内向的人 ■(Psychology)a person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things (心理)内向性格者。 比较 extrovert
mid 17th cent. (as a verb in the general sense 'turn one's thoughts inwards (in spiritual contemplation'): from modern Latin introvertere, from intro- 'to the inside' + vertere 'to turn'. Its use as a term in psychology dates from the early 20th cent