Word Meanings - INTROVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper. 2. To look within; to introspect. Lew Wallace.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INWARD; INWARDS
  1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
• INTROSPECTION
  A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
• INTROSPECT
  To look into or within; to view the inside of. Bailey.
• INTROSPECTIONIST
  One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.
• INWARD
  1. Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton. 2. Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak. 3. Intimate; domestic; private. All my inward friends abhorred me. Job xix. 19. He had had occasion,
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• INWARDS
  See INWARD
• INWARDNESS
  1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. Dr. H. More. 2. Intimacy; familiarity. Shak. 3. Heartiness; earnestness. What was wanted was more inwardness,
• INWARDLY
  1. In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak. 2. Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly. 3. In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines. 4.
• INTROSPECTIVE
  1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious. 2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. J. S. Mill.
• INTROVERT
  1. To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper. 2. To look within; to introspect. Lew Wallace.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• WITHINFORTH
  Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.