inwardness

inwardness has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.
• n.. Intimacy; familiarity.
• n.. Heartiness; earnestness.
• n.. preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
• n.. the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"
• n.. 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"
• n.. 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"