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What does inwardness mean?

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Noun
  1. The characteristic of being inward; directed towards the inside.
  2. (obsolete) Internal or true state; essential nature.
  3. (obsolete) intimacy; familiarity
  4. (obsolete) heartiness; earnestness
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As early as 1931, he had fully grasped the kind of inwardness that the camera required for the expression of maximum behavioral intimacy.
The inwardness and resentfulness of too many British Muslims will endure at least until the second immigrant generation gives way to the third.
More and more I am trying to discover an organic form that is true to the particular moment of the particular poem, the simple plain inwardness of that moment.
His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
For the first time in fiction, in Don Quixote's absolute inwardness, we discover something like the self.
The greatest inwardness was not incompatible with public display of piety.

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