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interiority rare.|ɪntɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. interiōritās, f. interior: see -ity. (In mod.F. intériorité.)]
a. The quality or state of being interior or inward.
b. Inner character or nature; an inner element.
1701Norris Ideal World i. vi. 391 What St. Augustine..inculcates concerning both the interiority, and the community of truth. 1704Ibid. ii. xiii. 549 Some of his expressions..relate to the interiority of Truth. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 261 Interiority and exteriority, by which is meant the distinction of the attributes of an object as originally existing in itself or as acquired from without. 1818Bp. Jebb in C. Forster Life ii. (1836) 140 Those deep interiorities (if I may be allowed the expression), which will ever be the refreshment and delight of the most pious worshippers. 1884H. W. Beecher Plymouth Pulpit 19 Mar. 496 (Cent.) He had been a breaker of the law in its essential spirit, in its interiority, all the way through. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xvii. 43 It is surely subjectivity and interiority which are the notions latest acquired by the human mind. 1934E. Bowen Cat Jumps 51 Voices came out from some dark interiority. 1941Theology XLII. 156 The characteristic of the new period was, as Hegel put it, interiority. 1967Listener 26 Oct. 552/1 Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak suffers..from Schlesinger's reluctance to suggest, as Hardy might put it, interiority. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Nov. 1348/4 For all its imaginative ambitiousness, the volume lacks a certain human interiority. |