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inwardness n. 本质,深意;灵性;思想的深度,诚挚 本质,深意;灵性;思想的深度,诚挚 inwardness n 1: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; " the gist of the prosecutor' s argument"; " the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; " the nub of the story" [ synonym: { kernel}, { substance}, { core}, { center}, { centre}, { essence}, { gist}, { heart}, { heart and soul}, { inwardness}, { marrow}, { meat}, { nub}, { pith}, { sum}, { nitty- gritty}] 2: 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" [ ant: { outwardness}] 3: the quality or state of being inward or internal; " the inwardness of the body' s organs" [ ant: { externality}, { outwardness}] 4: preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature ( especially ethical or ideological values); " Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H. R. Finch [ synonym: { inwardness}, { internality}] [ ant: { outwardness}] Inwardness \ In" ward* ness\, n. 1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. [ 1913 Webster] Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. -- Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Intimacy; familiarity. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Heartiness; earnestness. [ 1913 Webster] What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. -- M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster] 21 Moby Thesaurus words for " inwardness": depth, essentiality, experience, familiarity, fundamentality, immanence, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, inherence, innateness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intimacy, intrinsicality, introversion, nonobjectivity, subjectivity
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