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.