interiority
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9.1
- noun
- /ˌɪntəˈriːəˌtē/
- Literature
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interioridad
- How might the language of imitatio Christi have functioned within the Christian discourse of interiority?
- realm of interiority
- psychological interiority
- space for interiority
She endowed her subjects with interiority.
- She endowed her subjects with interiority.
- Now, they both wind up in the same place inside the self, right, in the self's interiority.
- 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.
- It lacks Zelst and therefore lacking inwardness, doesn't have an interiority, something to open up.
- If your interiority was handled by you consciously, you would definitely keep this in a blissful state.
Examples
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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.
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The most deeply experienced and personal sense of individuality and interiority is always already social.
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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.
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In her latest novel, the author explores the interiority of her characters, revealing their deepest thoughts and emotions.
Synonyms
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6.9
A person tends to focus on inner thoughts and feel reserved around others
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7.9
A focus on your own thoughts and feelings
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9.9
The special inner quality that makes someone or something seem different
A person's inner feelings and private thoughts
Thinking carefully about your own thoughts and feelings
A strong focus on your own inner thoughts, feelings, and values
Antonyms
How Inward
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Interiority comes from interior ('inner' or 'inside') plus the ending -ity ('quality'), so it literally means the 'quality of being inner'. That's why interiority is used to talk about someone's inner thoughts, feelings, and character.