Internal
[adj] happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"
[adj] located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
[adj] inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
[adj] occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation"
[adj] innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
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Synonyms
domestic, home(a), in, inner, interior, interior(a), internecine, intimate, intragroup, intramural, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, national
Related Terms
bosom, center, central, cerebral, conceptive, conceptual, core, deep, deepest recesses, deep-seated, endopsychic, esoteric, gut, heart, heart of hearts, home, immanent, implanted, implicit, inalienable, indoor, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, in