Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being internal; the state of being interior; inwardness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being internal or within; interiority.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
internal orinternalized . - noun countable A thing that is
internal relative to something else.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
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Examples
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Narcissistic sensitivity, however, is focused solely on the subtle nuances one's own internality, and resists looking at hard, uncomfortable truths that may upset the self image.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Allure Of Narcissistic Spirituality Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Basically, most things that we can tax in this way have clearly defined negative externalities (you know, 1: 1,000,000 kids go retarded for each barrel of toxic sludge, so you slap a cost on that and pass it on to the guy who makes the sludge), and a clearly definite positive internality.
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Narcissistic sensitivity, however, is focused solely on the subtle nuances one's own internality, and resists looking at hard, uncomfortable truths that may upset the self image.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Allure Of Narcissistic Spirituality Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Narcissistic sensitivity, however, is focused solely on the subtle nuances one's own internality, and resists looking at hard, uncomfortable truths that may upset the self image.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Allure Of Narcissistic Spirituality Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Narcissistic sensitivity, however, is focused solely on the subtle nuances one's own internality, and resists looking at hard, uncomfortable truths that may upset the self image.
The Allure of Narcissistic Spirituality Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Narcissistic sensitivity, however, is focused solely on the subtle nuances one's own internality, and resists looking at hard, uncomfortable truths that may upset the self image.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Allure Of Narcissistic Spirituality Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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The device itself acts as a mask between the user and the outside world, expressing the internality of the human-device interaction.
Boing Boing 2008
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Like the displaced internality affirmed earlier in the mutual adjustment of wind and harp, the poet is himself displaced in time and space.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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"Between [Tilda] Swinton's wounded, watchful eyes and [Amber] Tamblyn's soft internality emerges something that transcends the inherently stale nature of their transactions."
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This is the ˜internality thesis™, that all intelligibilia are internal to intellect and the objects of sense perception are external.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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