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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

... and singing the celebrated Scotch song, 'There's naething like haggis to mak a mon dry!' and he had ever since preserved in his mind a faithful image of the picturesque and warlike appearance which he presented. Indeed, if the true inwardness of Mr. Markam's mind on the subject of his selection of Aberdeenshire as a summer resort were known, it would be found that in the foreground of the holiday locality which his fancy painted stalked ...

— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker

... a little before proceeding with the work of destruction. They were strange products, most of these poems of his; mirroring vague metaphysical moods, unseizable mystic fancies; incomprehensible save to one whose own inwardness they suggested, or to one of infinite emotional sympathy. A blurred, shapeless spirit brooded behind these melodious masses of words, these outpourings of disconnected ideas—a spirit invisible for reason and ...

— Cleo The Magnificent - The Muse of the Real • Louis Zangwill

... of vague images linked according to the least rigorous modes of association. Emotional abstractions; their nature.—Its characteristic of inwardness.—Its principal manifestations: revery, the romantic spirit, the chimerical spirit; myths and religious conceptions, literature and the fine arts (the symbolists), the class of the marvelous and fantastic.—Varieties of the diffluent imagination: first, numerical imagination; its ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

... called the young man. "But do you know anything about the inwardness of this business on Hue and ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... under-currents of the nation. Woodrow Wilson understands easily, but he does not incarnate: he has never been a part of the protest he speaks. You think of him as a good counsellor, as an excellent presiding officer. Whether his imagination is fibrous enough to catch the inwardness of the mutterings of our age is something experience alone can show. Wilson has class feeling in the least offensive sense of that term: he likes a world of gentlemen. Occasionally he has exhibited a rather amateurish effort to be grimy and shirt-sleeved. But without much success: his contact with ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

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