Definitions for: Inwardness


[n] preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
[n] the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"
[n] preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
[n] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: In"ward*ness, n.
1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the
inwardness of conduct.

Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things.
--Dr. H. More.

2. Intimacy; familiarity. [Obs.] --Shak.

3. Heartiness; earnestness.

What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling.
--M. Arnold.

Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum

Antonyms: externality, outwardness, outwardness

See Also: cognitive content, cognitive state, content, haecceity, hypostasis, introversion, mental object, otherworldliness, position, quiddity, quintessence, spatial relation, spirituality, state of mind, stuff

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