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Assuming you mean 'definition of introvert versus extrovert personality';

It is popularly believed that an introverted person could be any or all of the following; shy, not outgoing, quiet, solitary, inexplorative; while an extroverted person is the opposite; outgoing, chatty, loud, social etc. This has largely entered popular culture through mistaken interpretations of Carl Jung's personality theories. He did not mean these terms the same way people use them now. To him, an introvert was someone who focused their thoughts inwardly and an extrovert focused their thoughts outwardly on things and people. Even today, psychologists don't use the terms the same way as "pop-psych" writings do. Psychologists today see extroversion and introversion as two extreme ends of a scale with a lot of middle ground called "ambiversion." Most people are ambiverts. Sometimes they want to be alone and sometimes they want to be with people. The extremes (introverts/extroverts) are a minority of the population.

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