Meaning of INWARDNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'inwurdnis
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | center, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | depth, essentiality, experience, familiarity, fundamentality, immanence, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, inherence, innateness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intimacy, intrinsicality, introversion, nonobjectivity, subjectivity |
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