interiority

/ɪnˌtɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ/

Interiority is a characteristic of being private, inward, or introspective. A writer can convey her characters' interiority by describing their innermost thoughts.

The interiority of a person is their quality of being focused on their own inner nature or musings. Certain things are so personal that they carry their own sense of interiority — think of the emotion of love or the faith of a religious believer. You can also use this word to mean "inside" or "protected from the outside," like when you admire the interiority of an enclosed courtyard that's sheltered from the busy city around it.

Definitions of interiority

1. noun

   the quality or state of being inward or internal
   synonyms: inwardness

   type of:

   position, spatial relation

   the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
2. noun

   preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
   synonyms: inwardness

   type of:

   cognitive state, state of mind

   the state of a person's cognitive processes