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单词 inwardness
释义 in·ward·ness
noun
(-es)
Etymology: inward (I) + -ness
1. : close acquaintance : familiarity, intimacy
 < read his way into a certain inwardness with Chaucer's idiom — John Speirs >
2. : fundamental nature or meaning : essence, significance
 < apprehending the real inwardness of a plowman — C.D.Lewis >
 < could not grasp the inwardness of the text — H.J.Laski >
 < far from … certain as to the true inwardness of her violent dismissal — Joseph Conrad >
3. : internal quality or substance
 < became aware of the inwardness of my body, of the blood moving in darkness — R.P.Warren >
4.
 a. : preoccupation with one's own affairs or attitudes : introspection, subjectivity
  < the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness — Morris Roberts >
  < voluntary withdrawal … was to mean thereafter an inwardness of corporate life — W.L.Sperry >
 b. : preoccupation with ethical or ideological values : spirituality
  < Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness — H.R.Finch >
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