· the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

Synonym(s): kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart_and_soul, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty

Hypernym(s): content, cognitive_content, mental_object

· preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"

Hypernym(s): cognitive_state, state_of_mind

Antonym(s): outwardness

· the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"

Hypernym(s): position, spatial_relation

Antonym(s): outwardness

· preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch

Synonym(s): internality

Hypernym(s): introversion

Antonym(s): outwardness