inwardness

Meanings

Plural: inwardnesses

Noun

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
• 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"
• preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); - H.R.Finch
  • "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
• The characteristic of being inward or directed towards the inside.
• The internal or true state; the essential nature.
• Familiarity; intimacy.
• Earnestness; heartiness.

Synonyms

bowels, brass tacks, center, centre, core, crux, deets, details, drift, essence, gist, gravamen, guts, heart, heart and soul, heartstring, heartstrings, internality, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, moral of the story, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, pith, punctum saliens, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, sum, tenor

Antonyms

outwardness