inwardness
pronunciation
How to pronounce inwardness in British English:
UK [ˈɪnwədnəs]
How to pronounce inwardness in American English:
US [ˈɪnwərdnəs]
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- Noun:
- 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 quality or state of being inward or internal
- preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
Word Origin
- inwardness (n.)
- late 14c., from inward + -ness.
Example
- 1. Similarly we also at a further step speak of a man ' resolving ' to do something , meaning that the agent steps forward out of his self ? 1 Regarding inwardness and enters into dealings with the environing objectivity .
- 2. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged , literature is freedom .
- 3. Dustin gives a true sense of ace 's inwardness just by his presence , " he said . "
- 4. The essence is , in the first place , the sum total of the showing itself , shining in itself ( inwardly ) ; but , far from abiding in this inwardness , it comes as a ground forward into existence ; and this existence being grounded not in itself , but on something else , is just appearance .
- 5. The absolute self identity of this relationship is substance as such , which as necessity gives the negative to this form of inwardness , and thus invests itself with actuality , but which also gives the negative to this outward thing .