| NOUN | cognition | inwardness, kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
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| cognition | inwardness | preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values | |
| attribute | inwardness | the quality or state of being inward or internal | |
| attribute | inwardness, internality | preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) |
| Meaning | The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. | |
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| Synonyms | kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty | |
| Narrower | bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements |
| hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality | |
| quiddity, haecceity | The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other | |
| quintessence | The purest and most concentrated essence of something | |
| stuff | A critically important or characteristic component | |
| Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
| Spanish | centro, corazón, enjundia, esencia, médula, meollo, núcleo, quid, sustancia | |
| Catalan | bessó, centre, cor, essència, nucli, quid, substància | |
| Meaning | preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values. | |
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| Broader | cognitive state, state of mind | The state of a person's cognitive processes |
| Opposite | outwardness | Concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit |
| Adjectives | inward | relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts |
| Meaning | The quality or state of being inward or internal. | |
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| Example | "the inwardness of the body's organs" | |
| Broader | position, spatial relation | The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated |
| Opposite | outwardness, externality | The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior |
| Spanish | interioridad | |
| Adjectives | inward | directed or moving inward or toward a center |
| Meaning | preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values). | |
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| Example | "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch | |
| Synonym | internality | |
| Attributes | inward | relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts |
| Narrower | spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness | concern with things of the spirit |
| Broader | introversion | (psychology) an introverted disposition |
| Opposite | outwardness | A concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) |
| Adjectives | inward | relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts |
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