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Definition of inwardness : 1. Heartiness; earnestness.
2. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.
3. Intimacy; familiarity.

Synonyms:

means, midpoint, essence, warmness, marrow, spirit, core group, plaza, center field, pump, affection, sum total, eye, message, burden, sum, core, centerfield, center of attention, subject matter, pith, substance, sum of money, union, kernel, nubble, effect, vegetable marrow, tenderness, mettle, nerve centre, shopping center, shopping centre, meat, perfume, center, summation, nerve center, heart, aggregate, ticker, nerve, totality, content, heart and soul, marrow squash, amount, magnetic core, mall, philia, amount of money, snapper, bone marrow, shopping mall, affectionateness, gist, spunk, total, fondness, bosom, middle, meaning, centre, join, warmheartedness, stub, nitty-gritty, nub, centre of attention, nucleus

innerness, subjectivity, viscera, internality, centrality

Usage examples:

• It looks gray- blue and tastes gray- blue, and gives to your psychic inwardness a dull, gray- blue, melancholy tone. - "The River and I", John G. Neihardt.
• He regards it further as a pitiable descent into a lower sphere, a fall from the spiritual realm to the material, and therefore unbecoming for those who have been enfranchised from dependence upon outward helps and symbols, and taught the spirituality and inwardness of Christian worship. - "The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon", Alexander Maclaren.
• The inwardness of politics, too, possessed him more fully. - "The Day of Judgment", Joseph Hocking.