Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being interior; inwardness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being interior.
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- noun The state or quality of being
private orinterior to the person
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Examples
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In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative.
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Consciousness or "interiority" is posited (sensibly enough) as intrinsically heteronomousits own other, so to speak.
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My remarks today consider two Romantic sites where a version of interiority is presented which seems to fall outside the usual way in which we think of Romantic subjectivity — the microscopic impulse in Romantic botanical theory and illustration and the way two Romantic poets, John Clare and Charlotte Smith, use botanic terms for poetic ends.
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Learned a new word today: "interiority" - it means, being inside somebody 's head.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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But beyond this, the idea of interiority was an expression of modernity itself.
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Thus the believer perceives what I have called the interiority and integrity of God, the resource and solidity of divine life: what is indestructibly solid in God is this life-in-the-other.
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An 'interiority' too superficial to contact the truth lying at life's center; which no longer reaches the essential and everlasting, but remains somewhere just under the skinlevel of the provisional and the fortuitous.
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Kazan's direction judiciously draws on Dunn's still functioning charisma (his character is the best-liked, least-employed man in his neighborhood), his personal history (his character is an alcoholic, whose dreams of becoming a music hall star have collapsed because of his problem) and a new kind of interiority (Dunn needs no dialogue to express his anguish and tragic resolve when, on a fateful Christmas Eve, he looks at his sleeping daughter and realizes he will never be able to give her the education she deserves).
NYT > Home Page By DAVE KEHR 2010
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Kazan's direction judiciously draws on Dunn's still functioning charisma (his character is the best-liked, least-employed man in his neighborhood), his personal history (his character is an alcoholic, whose dreams of becoming a music hall star have collapsed because of his problem) and a new kind of interiority (Dunn needs no dialogue to express his anguish and tragic resolve when, on a fateful Christmas Eve, he looks at his sleeping daughter and realizes he will never be able to give her the education she deserves).
NYT > Home Page By DAVE KEHR 2010
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The world outside the human being lacks conscious intelligence, it lacks interiority, and it lacks intrinsic meaning and purpose ...
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan" Kenny Ausubel 2010
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