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inwardness

English

  1. 🔊 preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
    “Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness”
  2. 🔊 the quality or state of being inward or internal
    “the inwardness of the body's organs”
  3. 🔊 preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
    “the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness”
  4. 🔊 the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
    “the gist of the prosecutor's argument”

Similar words

internality kernel substance core center centre essence gist heart heart and soul marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty depth essentiality experience familiarity fundamentality immanence inbeing indigenousness