'Inwardness' definitions:
Definition of 'inwardness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]
noun
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" [ant: outwardness]
noun
The quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs" [ant: externality, outwardness]
noun
Preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch [syn: inwardness, internality] [ant: outwardness]
Definition of 'Inwardness'
From: GCIDE
- Inwardness \In"ward*ness\, n.
- 1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. [1913 Webster]
- Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Intimacy; familiarity. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Heartiness; earnestness. [1913 Webster]
- What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inwardness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- depth,
- essentiality,
- experience,
- familiarity,
- fundamentality,
- immanence,
- inbeing,
- indigenousness,
- indwelling,
- inherence,
- innateness,
- innerness,
- inness,
- interiority,
- internality,
- internalization,
- intimacy,
- intrinsicality,
- introversion,
- nonobjectivity,
- subjectivity