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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
inwardness
    n 1: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
         idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's
         argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party";
         "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core,
         center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and
         soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith,
         sum, nitty-gritty]
    2: preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or
       ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters,
       their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman
       quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright" [ant:
       outwardness]
    3: the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the
       inwardness of the body's organs" [ant: externality,
       outwardness]
    4: preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature
       (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates'
       inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch [syn:
       inwardness, internality] [ant: outwardness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inwardness \In"ward*ness\, n.
   1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the
      inwardness of conduct.
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            Sense can not arrive to the inwardness
            Of things.                            --Dr. H. More.
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   2. Intimacy; familiarity. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. Heartiness; earnestness.
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            What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling.
                                                  --M. Arnold.
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Thesaurus Results for inwardness:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
depth, essentiality, experience, familiarity, fundamentality, immanence, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, inherence, innateness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intimacy, intrinsicality, introversion, nonobjectivity, subjectivity
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