inwardness

Noun
  1. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (synset 105929717)
    "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
    is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
    subtypes:
    • bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
    • hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
    • haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
    • quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
    • stuff - a critically important or characteristic component
    same as: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum
  2. Preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values (synset 105795180)
    "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
    is a type of: cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes
  3. The quality or state of being inward or internal (synset 105086101)
    "the inwardness of the body's organs"
    is a type of: position, spatial relation - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
  4. Preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) (synset 104628367)
    "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
    tells us about: inward - relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts
    is a type of: introversion - (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings
    subtypes: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality - concern with things of the spirit
    same as: internality

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