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Language: Old English
Origin: inweard

inward

 adjective
     
in‧ward written
1 [only before noun] felt or experienced in your own mind but not expressed to other people [≠ outward]:
a feeling of inward satisfaction
inward panic
2 towards the inside or centre of something
—inwardly adverb:
I managed to smile, but inwardly I was furious.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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