extroitive

adjective

1. Seeking or going out after external objects.

   obsolete, rare

   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.

   c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream

Where it comes from

From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry extroitive (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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