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I can be extremely indecisive at times. When it comes to socializing this is where you can see it in me. I have a hard time deciding who or how I'm gonna be at any given time of the day. Some would call that temperamental, but I call it the distinct trait of being an ambivert.

This word descibes one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert. The history of the word is based on Latin elements: the prefix ambi– “both, on both sides, around” (as in English ambient “surrounding, encompassing” and ambiguous “open to several interpretations”), and the suffix –vert, extracted from the verb vertere “to turn” (as in English convert “to turn completely,” and divert “to turn aside, deflect”). Ambivert, first recorded in 1927, is modeled on the somewhat earlier words introvert (1916) and extrovert (1918).

An example sentence could be:

"A well-developed ambivert, he [Abraham Lincoln] could hold complexity and contradiction to stand firmly behind words America desperately needed..."

No need to pick sides for your social personality, just be a bit of both! Happy studying!