interiority

noun

in·te·ri·or·i·ty | \ (ˌ)in-ˌtir-ē-ˈȯr-ə-tē

, -ˈär-\

Definition of interiority

1 : interior quality or character

2 : inner life or substance : psychological existence

Examples of interiority in a Sentence

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The experience of interiority and the outside conditions controlling our bodies are bound up in a way that only imprisonment unites so literally. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels," 7 June 2018 The 250 works, spanning 1850 to the present, accentuate female interiority and perception. — Sarah Moroz, The Cut, "Virginia Woolf’s Ideology on Display at Tate St Ives," 6 Feb. 2018 Like some of the other best comedies on air right now — Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place — Trial & Error doesn’t rob its characters of a sense of interiority in exchange for making them so colorful. — Karen Han, Vox, "NBC’s Trial & Error is a joyful break from reality," 29 July 2018 Few of us are likely to agree with her dictum that photography is best practiced as a purely objective art that makes no concession to inwardness or interiority. — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, "Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera," 1 June 2018 At times, Pink’s relentless interiority is altogether oppressive to read. — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, "Spirit of the Strip Mall," 24 May 2018 What’s more, the fact that the mystery was medical only amplified the usual effect: To wonder what was wrong with the First Lady’s health is to think about her internal body, her interiority. — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, "Melania’s Recent Behavior Is Right Out of Hitchcock," 11 June 2018 Large claims about the interiority of human beings from a different time are not so easily proven. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Did Math Kill God?," 27 Apr. 2018 Her interiority was the key to the show, felt in those endless close-ups of Moss’s face, and in her narration. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Handmaid's Tale and the Suffering of Women," 25 Apr. 2018

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