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English noun: inwardness | |||
| 1. | inwardness (cognition) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | ||
| Samples | The gist of the prosecutor's argument. The heart and soul of the Republican Party. The nub of the story. | ||
| Synonyms | center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bare bones, haecceity, hypostasis, quiddity, quintessence, stuff | ||
| 2. | inwardness (cognition) preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values | ||
| Samples | The sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness. Inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive state, state of mind | ||
| Antonyms | outwardness | ||
| 3. | inwardness (attribute) the quality or state of being inward or internal | ||
| Samples | The inwardness of the body's organs. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | position, spatial relation | ||
| Antonyms | externality, outwardness | ||
| 4. | inwardness (attribute) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | ||
| Samples | Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness. | ||
| Synonyms | internality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | introversion | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality | ||
| Attribute | inward | ||
| Antonyms | outwardness | ||
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