INNER

• (adj.) located or occurring within or closer to a center

  "an inner room"

• (adj.) inside or closer to the inside of the body

  "the inner ear"

• (adj.) located inward

  "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle", "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it", "an internal sense of rightousness"

  synonyms : interior , internal

• (adj.) innermost or essential

  "the inner logic of Cubism", "the internal contradictions of the theory", "the intimate structure of matter"

  synonyms : internal , intimate

• (adj.) exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence

  "inner regions of the organization", "inner circles of government"

• (adj.) confined to an exclusive group

  "privy to inner knowledge", "inside information", "privileged information"

  synonyms : inside , privileged

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