internalityn.

a1641 J. Everard Some Gospel-treasures Opened (1653) i. 352 For whatever you can see, are but shaddows and not the truth; As in this my body you cannot see the internality and the truth of it.

1726 J. Heywood Poems & Lett. Several Subj. (ed. 2) 224 Taciturnity..involv'd their Comprehension in a Labyrinth of inexplicable Internality.

1784 J. Goldie Gospel Recovered from Captive State IV. vi. iv. 192 There is more included in what is here exprest, and depends upon the sum of this prohibition, by reason of its internality, than when the substance of the whole Decalogue is taken together, independent thereof.

1813 W. Taylor Eng. Synonyms 193 The internality of action which accompanies the signification of the word [sc. grow].

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 473 All ligaments are external, and their internality or externality is in respect of the hinge line.

1948 Life 11 Oct. 59/2 Picasso and other moderns have discovered for art the internality of the body.

2003 T. Metzinger Being No One v. 267 Internality can be described as a phenomenal, functional, or physical property of certain system states.

1839 Metropolitan Sept. 157/2 There is a volubility, a clever, careless, fearless display of internalities in her passion.

1866 Odd Bricks ii. 104 Perception is an internality,—give it any analytical divisioning and separate naming we will.

1907 Bookman Apr. 8/1 He [sc. Henry Fielding] is too natural and straightforward—not ‘internal’ enough, as has been said above, or rather not loquacious enough about his internalities.

1955 Chicago Rev. 9 No. 1. 53 As regards the internalities of the story, we note the dramatic irony that Gretchen herself plucked the petals of a flower when in search of a sign that Faust loved her.

2009 Independent (Nexis) 4 Jan. (Arts & Bks. section) 44 It is a given of post-Renaissance art that portraits should reveal their subjects' inner lives, externalities spelling out internalities.