inwardness
(noun)
noun
1. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Similar word(s): center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum
Definition categories: thought, content
2. preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
- the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness
- inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright
Definition categories: thought
3. the quality or state of being inward or internal
- the inwardness of the body's organs
Definition categories: attribute, position
4. preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
- Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness
Similar word(s): internality
Definition categories: attribute, introversion
Sentences with inwardness as a noun:
- the inwardness of conduct
- Sense can not arrive to the inwardness of things. — Dr. H. More.
- What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. — M. Arnold.