About The Word Inwardness
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Inwardness: center | core | essence | gist | heart | heart and soul | kernel | marrow | meat | nitty-gritty | nub | pith | substance | sum Related Terms | Find terms related to Inwardness: depth | essentiality | experience | familiarity | fundamentality | immanence | inbeing | indigenousness | indwelling | inherence | innateness | innerness | inness | interiority | internality | internalization | intimacy | intrinsicality | introversion | nonobjectivity | subjectivity See Also | cognitive content | cognitive state | content | haecceity | hypostasis | introversion | mental object | otherworldliness | position | quiddity | quintessence | spatial relation | spirituality | state of mind | stuff Inwardness In Webster's Dictionary \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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