inwardness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ward=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

inwardness, n. 

•  Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.  [1913 Webster]

  "Sense can not arrive to the inwardness
  Of things."  [1913 Webster]
•  Intimacy; familiarity.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Heartiness; earnestness.  [1913 Webster]

  "What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inwardness, n.
1 inner nature; essence.
2 the condition of being inward.
3 spirituality.

THESAURUS

inwardness

depth, essentiality, experience, familiarity, fundamentality, immanence, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, inherence, innateness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intimacy, intrinsicality, introversion, nonobjectivity, subjectivity