inwardness
- n the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- 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 quality or state of being inward or internal
the inwardness of the body's organs - n preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
- And the people he shows us with their Yankee rectitude, the weathered parchment of their faces and their Nordic inwardness seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the .
- The "subject" is very often simply the dreamy inwardness of people walking or standing on the streets of a great city.
- When his photographs work they bid us into a realm of privacy, inwardness and even shame.