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English Dictionary: inwardness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for inwardness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inwardness 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" Synonym(s): kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty 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" Antonym(s): outwardness the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs" Antonym(s): externality, outwardness preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch Synonym(s): inwardness, internality Antonym(s): outwardness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inwardness \In"wardness\, 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.