inwardness

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: inwardness

1	n	preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
2	n	the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
3	n	the quality or state of being inward or internal

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: inwardness

“the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness”

“inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright”

Antonyms:: outwardness
concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit

Type of:: cognitive state, state of mind
the state of a person's cognitive processes

“"Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch”

Antonyms:: outwardness
a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts)

Types:: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality
concern with things of the spirit

Type of:: introversion
(psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings

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

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; bare bones
(plural) the most basic facts or elements; hypostasis
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality; haecceity, quiddity
the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other; quintessence
the purest and most concentrated essence of something; stuff
a critically important or characteristic component

Type of:: cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

“the inwardness of the body's organs”

Antonyms:: externality, outwardness
the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior

Type of:: position, spatial relation
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

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