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internality

internality

9.9
A strong focus on your own inner thoughts, feelings, and values
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈtɜrnəlɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : internalidad
  • Many people find that fostering a sense of internality helps them make ethical decisions in difficult situations.
  • internality, stability, and globality
  • internality and stability
  • internality–externality

Wrath, being externalized, is bringing this this out of its internality, right?

Examples

  • The internality of their attributions for failure likely functions as a barrier to optimal performance.

    Academic text (1991)

  • However, depressed patients frequently attribute bad outcomes to internal events (Abramson & Sackeim, 1977), suggesting that internality, and not externality, of causal explanations underpins depression.

    Academic text (1996)

  • On the evidence summarized here, we expected a positive association between internality and life satisfaction.

    Academic text (1994)

  • I also explored levels of internality and belief in chance as a function of gender, ethnic group, and homelessness.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Its emphasis on internality was thought to be a rejection of the interconnectedness of every aspect of nature.

    Blog text (10)

  • In essence, patterns of internality must be integrated into the family-school-community ecology.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The interjudge agreement for the internality and externality of the participants' responses was 75%.

    Academic text (2001)

  • However, as already noted, the theoretical basis of the RLHM suggests that internality should be distinct from stability and globality.

    Academic text (1996)

  • As in the volunteer sample, internality for a bad affiliative situation was correlated positively with psychoticism.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Internality is generated by viewing, partaking of subjectivity, inasmuch as it is constituted in observation and involvement; but it is an internality that refuses to go to any considerable depths.

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

inwardness
vsinternality
1 7.9

A focus on your own thoughts and feelings

is more about inner concern with ethical or ideological values
interiority
vsinternality
  • Literature
1 9.1

Private thoughts and feelings that a person has

leans more toward concern with moral or ideological inner values
inness
vsinternality
  • Literature
9.9

A person's inner feelings and private thoughts

stresses concern with inner ethical or ideological values rather than general inwardness
introspectiveness
vsinternality
8.5

Thinking carefully about your own thoughts and feelings

focuses instead on inner concern with ethics and ideology rather than self examination

How Internal

introspection
18 6.9
internality
  • Specialized
9.9
externality
1 8.4

Surface Forms

internality singular
internalities plural

Morphology

internality = internal (transparent) = internal + ity

A straightforward nominalization: 'internal' (inner) + '-ity' yields the state or quality of being internal, which learners can derive from the adjective.

Etymology

Internality comes from the idea 'inside' and shares the same root as internal and interior, so it refers to what is within a person. That's why internality means focusing on your inner nature, values, or beliefs.