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Type Words
Synonyms internality
Type of introversion
Has types spirituality, spiritism, spiritualism, otherworldliness
Derivation inward


Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness.
Type Words
Synonyms center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum
Type of content, mental object, cognitive content
Has types bare bones, haecceity, hypostasis, quiddity, quintessence, stuff
Type Words
Type of cognitive state, state of mind
Derivation inward


the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness.
inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright.
Type Words
Type of position, spatial relation
Derivation inward


the inwardness of the body's organs.

Examples of inwardness

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People who want some relief from the inwardness of British writing should enjoy it.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
They also rue the inwardness of Japanese firms that resist co-operating with others.
From the economist.com
That kind of inwardness brings about degeneration rather than creation and innovation.
From the forbes.com
What can it say about inwardness, fecundity, vulnerability, repression or resentment?
From the time.com
Well, it's the inwardness that I like, and the impassive gaze, really.
From the telegraph.co.uk
When his photographs work they bid us into a realm of privacy, inwardness and even shame.
From the time.com
But it also seems to me to have quite a lot of inwardness and feeling.
From the guardian.co.uk
The beautiful inwardness of the slow movement and the fury of the minuet worked much better.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Seraph is filled with regret, instability and moments of inwardness.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Kernel: 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"
  • Preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
  • The quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"
  • The characteristic of being inward; directed towards the inside