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the childlike aspect of a person's psyche, especially when viewed as an independent entity: healing your inner child through psychotherapy.

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subconscious, ego, mind, soul, spirit, individuality, anima, self, character, animus, spirituality, pneuma

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inner, inner automorphism, inner bar, inner barrister, inner cell mass, inner child, inner circle, inner city, inner ear, inner hebrides, inner jib
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inner child

noun

psychol the part of the psyche believed to retain feelings as they were experienced in childhood
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