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Interior vs Interiority - What's the difference?

interior | interiority |

As nouns the difference between interior and interiority

is that interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure while interiority is the state or quality of being private or interior to the person.

As an adjective interior

is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

interior

English

Alternative forms

* interiour (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    • the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    • the interior parts of a region or country

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * interior decoration * interior design * interior designer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
    • ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
  • (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

    • Antonyms

    * (l)

    interiority

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being private or interior to the person
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 30, author=Andrea K. Scott, title=The Way the World Ends, Vividly Imagined, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=(For a contemporary counterpart consider the perverse geometry and raw interiority of the painter Carroll Dunham.) }}