- a disposition that is energized through social engagement and languishes or chafes in solitude, resulting in a personality that is gregarious, outgoing, and sociable.
- Psychology.
- the act of directing one's interest outward or to things outside the self.
- the state of being concerned primarily with things outside the self, with the external environment rather than with one's own thoughts and feelings.
- a turning inside out, as of the eyelids or of the bladder.
- the directing of one's interest outwards, esp towards social contacts
- a turning inside out of an organ or part
