introspectiveness

noun

introspectiveness

noun

Etymology From introspective + -ness.

1

The state of being introspective.

  • Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:

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