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extrorse (en)

(adjective) facing outward

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extrorse


Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
by Zadie Smith

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
by Zadie Smith

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
by Zadie Smith


If Wallace insists on awareness, his particular creed is--to use a Wallacerian word--extrorse; awareness must move always in an outward direction, away from the self.

—p.266 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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