Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Extroitive

Ex-tro′i-tive

,
Adj.
[L.
extra
on the outside +
ire
,
itum
, to go.]
Seeking or going out after external objects.
[R.]
Their natures being almost wholly
extroitive
.
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


extroitive

extroitive

English

Adjective

extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)

  1. (obsolete) Seeking or going out after external objects.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      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.

Antonyms

See also