inwardness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
noun preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
noun the quality or state of being inward or internal

From Middle English inwardnesse; analysable as inward + -ness.

The ambitious medical student makes a specialty of true inwardness. — Remarks, Bill Nye
Your father, Mademoiselle, has never understood the true inwardness of it." — The mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie
"I see that you do not perceive the true inwardness of Hercule's plan. — The Big Four, Agatha Christie

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

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