inner

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.

located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room"

innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"

confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information"

exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"

inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"