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