inwardness
noun
in·ward·ness
ˈin-wərd-nəs 
1
: internal quality or substance
2
: close acquaintance : familiarity
3
: fundamental nature : essence
4
: absorption in one's own mental or spiritual life
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Hunger, incompletion, endless deferral, a blank state of isolated inwardness.
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A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Their socialism, its inwardness and self-sufficiency, was a way of incubating Hebrew.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
For all the closeups of her that Williams delivers, none of them have the pathos or the inwardness of the ones in which Lawrence drinks her in with his eyes while enduring the torment of his frustrated lust.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
This emphasis on inwardness is obviously a kind of Protestantism—in particular, the kind of dissenting spiritual enthusiasm to which all Protestantism inevitably leads.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Their socialism, its inwardness and self-sufficiency, was a way of incubating Hebrew.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
For all the closeups of her that Williams delivers, none of them have the pathos or the inwardness of the ones in which Lawrence drinks her in with his eyes while enduring the torment of his frustrated lust.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
This emphasis on inwardness is obviously a kind of Protestantism—in particular, the kind of dissenting spiritual enthusiasm to which all Protestantism inevitably leads.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
See All Example Sentences for inwardness
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“Inwardness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inwardness. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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