Definition of "interiority" [in•te•ri•or•i•ty]

• The state or quality of being private or interior to the person (noun)

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• "In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative."
• "Consciousness or "interiority" is posited (sensibly enough) as intrinsically heteronomousits own other, so to speak."
• "My remarks today consider two Romantic sites where a version of interiority is presented which seems to fall outside the usual way in which we think of Romantic subjectivity — the microscopic impulse in Romantic botanical theory and illustration and the way two Romantic poets, John Clare and Charlotte Smith, use botanic terms for poetic ends."