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[–] blujan@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're talking of extrovert then you're wrong, extrovert is a correct spelling of the word.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, extravert is the correct psychological nomenclature. Extraversion. Extroversion was not a thing until everyone got it wrong and it had to be shoved into dictionaries. Doesn't change a thing, "extro" is not a word. "Intro" on the other hand, is. As in "introvert".

What, do mutants have extro-sensory perception now, too? Is there extroneous information? Extrovehicular? Extrovagance? Extrovaganza?

"Extraversion" is correct.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

A quick search on Google scholar for "extravert" and "extrovert" both yield results with hundreds of citations so I think both are clearly acceptable.