inwardness

Meanings

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
• 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"
• the quality or state of being inward or internal
  • "the inwardness of the body's organs"
• preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); - H.R.Finch
  • "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"

Synonyms

center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, internality, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum