Definition of inwardness

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutors argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
• preoccupation especially with ones attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of Jamess characters, their seeming inwardness"; "Socrates inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"
• the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the bodys organs"