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Inwardness

noun

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

Preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values. "Inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"

The quality or state of being inward or internal.

Preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values). Synonym: internality.

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"Inwardness" Quotes from Famous Books

... cannot put this too plainly, that he reveres the memory of his gray-haired mother without whose tender ministrations and wise guidance he could never have reached the height from which he now speaks. And so let us pass on to the voting on these canal bonds, the true inwardness of which, thanks to the venal activities of a corrupt opposition, even an exclusively male constituency has thus far failed to comprehend. And ...

— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... as you must be of a deplorable confusion now prevailing in the public mind as to the true inwardness of the expressions "gadget" and "stunt," you will agree, I am sure, that the moment has come for a clear and authoritative ruling on this vexed point. At a time when the pundits of the Oxford Dictionary are coldly aloof, like GALLIO, and the Army Council, though ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917 • Various

... be noted is that even in London, having had time to take a reflective view, poor Flora was far from being certain as to the true inwardness of her violent dismissal. She felt the humiliation of it with an ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... no meaning or value. The need and the longing for a better constitution may often indeed be present in individuals, but that is quite different from the whole multitude being permeated with such an idea—that comes much later. The principle of morality, the inwardness of Socrates originated necessarily in his day, but it took time before it could pass ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... my career on frivolous trifles like science, you needn't think I've wholly neglected the true inwardness of life, as exemplified in 'The Hunting of the ...

— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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