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Definition of Inwardness
1. Noun. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. "The nub of the story"
Exact synonyms: Center, Centre, Core, Essence, Gist, Heart, Heart And Soul, Kernel, Marrow, Meat, Nitty-gritty, Nub, Pith, Substance, Sum
Generic synonyms: Cognitive Content, Content, Mental Object
Specialized synonyms: Bare Bones, Hypostasis, Haecceity, Quiddity, Quintessence, Stuff
Derivative terms: Central, Essential, Meaty, Pithy, Summate
Generic synonyms: Cognitive Content, Content, Mental Object
Specialized synonyms: Bare Bones, Hypostasis, Haecceity, Quiddity, Quintessence, Stuff
Derivative terms: Central, Essential, Meaty, Pithy, Summate
2. Noun. Preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values. "Inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
3. Noun. The quality or state of being inward or internal. "The inwardness of the body's organs"
4. Noun. Preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values). "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
Exact synonyms: Internality
Specialized synonyms: Otherworldliness, Spiritism, Spiritualism, Spirituality
Generic synonyms: Introversion
Attributes: Inward
Derivative terms: Inward
Antonyms: Outwardness
Specialized synonyms: Otherworldliness, Spiritism, Spiritualism, Spirituality
Generic synonyms: Introversion
Attributes: Inward
Derivative terms: Inward
Antonyms: Outwardness
Definition of Inwardness
1. n. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.
Definition of Inwardness
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