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extroitive

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Seeking or going out after external objects.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Examples

  • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
  • extroitive conduct

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).