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

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Vonnegut wasn’t going for interiority, character depth or musicality.

— jess walter, New York Times, "How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes," 9 Oct. 2017
Their emotional interiority sits at a difficult and interesting place in our culture now, at a time when America is reassessing its relationship to the way that cops feel.

— josephine livingstone, New Republic, "Wind River Reveals the Tricky Politics of Feeling Bad for Cops," 22 Aug. 2017
Nuanced interiority gives way to action — sometimes, unnecessarily, in the third person.

— tÉa obreht, New York Times, "An Uncanny Cat, a Companionable Snake and Displaced Desire," 21 Apr. 2017
Hamilton lays bare Khalil’s interiority through his rapid stream-of-consciousness narration.

— rayyan al-shawaf, latimes.com, "Activists love and lose in the Cairo novel, 'The City Always Wins'," 29 June 2017
In New People, the brown-skinned poet holds an interesting position, both within the prose and Maria’s interiority.

— morgan jerkins, New Republic, "The Old Problems of “New People”," 22 June 2017

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