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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
inwardness is a noun meaning "the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
Canada · United Kingdom
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”
the quality or state of being inward or internal
“the inwardness of the body's organs”
preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
“Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inwardness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.