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nounpreoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
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nounthe choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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nounpreoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological valuesOpposite:type of:
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nounthe quality or state of being inward or internalOpposite:type of:
Examples of inwardness
- "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
- "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"
- "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
- "the inwardness of the body's organs"