inwardness
1. 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
• Syn:
kernel, substance, core, center, centre,
essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, marrow, meat,
nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
• Derivationally related forms:
summate (for: sum), pithy (for: pith), meaty (for: meat), essential (for: essence), central (for: center)
• Hypernyms:
content, cognitive content, mental object
• Hyponyms:
bare bones, hypostasis, quiddity, haecceity, quintessence, stuff
2. 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
• Ant:
outwardness
• Derivationally related forms:
inward
• Hypernyms:
cognitive state, state of mind
3. the quality or state of being inward or internal
- the inwardness of the body's organs
• Ant:
outwardness
• Derivationally related forms:
inward
• Hypernyms:
position, spatial relation
4. preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
- "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
• Syn:
internality
• Ant:
outwardness
• Derivationally related forms:
inward
• Hypernyms:
introversion
• Hyponyms:
spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness
• Attrubites:
inward
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