innermost
nounUS /ˈɪnɚmoʊst/
Etymology From Middle English innermost, innermest, in-nermast, alteration (due to Middle English inner, innere (“inner”)) of Old English innemest (“innermost”), equivalent to inner + -most.
1
That which is innermost; the core.
- […] he had decided to not seek outside of himself where companionship and friendliness might be a soothing submergence. It seemed he had instead chosen to turn deeply inwards, towards the measures and pains of his wracked innermosts.1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot, page 10: