interiority

Examples

• All

• Here, the novel's refusal of interiority has a specific effect that we can call indeterminacy.

  Academic text (1995)

• In this quote, one sees the importance for Lonergan of self-appropriation on the level of interiority.

  Academic text (2005)

• Within the realm of interiority, this becomes the question of the relationship between knowledge and love.

  Academic text (2003)

• But at the same time, these installations approach interiority in a specific way that I found rather striking.

  Academic text (1999)

• If we don't have access to our interiority, we will not have the capacity to act unless we take a good long look around inside.

  Stanford

• The most deeply experienced and personal sense of individuality and interiority is always already social.

• There is an emphasis on facade, on seamless surfaces which protect the interiority of things.

  Academic text (1992)

• Participants here are neither in a relation of exteriority nor interiority; instead, they are mutually implicated in their relationship with each other.

  Academic text (1999)

• We're still sticking with the third person singular pronoun, but already there's a degree of interiority emerging in this portrait.

• In her latest novel, the author explores the interiority of her characters, revealing their deepest thoughts and emotions.

Synonyms

I

introversion

vsinteriority

2 6.9

A person tends to focus on inner thoughts and feel reserved around others

refers to inward focus as a quality without implying personality reserve

I

inscape

vsinteriority

• Literature

1 9.9

The special inner quality that makes someone or something seem different

is about inward attention to thoughts and character rather than uniqueness

I

inwardness

vsinteriority

1 7.9

A focus on your own thoughts and feelings

is the broader quality of being inward beyond specific self-focus

I

internality

vsinteriority

• Specialized

1 9.9

A strong focus on your own inner thoughts, feelings, and values

is the general inward focus not limited to moral or ideological issues

I

introspectiveness

vsinteriority

1 8.5

Thinking carefully about your own thoughts and feelings

is the overall inward quality rather than the act of examination

I

inness

vsinteriority

• Literature

9.9

A person's inner feelings and private thoughts

has identical meaning but appears as a different form or label

Antonyms

S

superficiality

3 7.8

Lack of deep thought or careful attention

How Inward

self-contemplation

1 7.9

interiority

• Literature

1 9.1

external

219 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology