Think of walking through layers: an outer hall, then an inner one, then a narrow door, and finally a room with nothing beyond it. That last room is the innermost one. The word is really the top of a scale — inner, further in, no further. A person can be pictured the same way, with layers of what you show, what you tell close friends, and one room at the centre that almost nobody enters.
From the word’s history
From Old English innemest, reshaped later under the influence of inner; by surface analysis simply inner plus -most. The word has always been a superlative of inside, which is why one picture covers both a cave and a person.
來自古英語 innemest，後來受到 inner 的影響改寫成今天的樣子。拆開看就是 inner 加上 -most。也就是說，它從頭到尾都是「裡面」的最高級。這正好解釋了為什麼同一幅畫面既能講山洞，也能講人心。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:961885478): Old English innemest, equivalent to inner + -most
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
innermostnoun/ˈɪnɚmoʊst/
- 1
That which is innermost; the core.
- […] he had decided to not seek outside of himself where companionship and friendliness might be a soothing submergence. It seemed he had instead chosen to turn deeply inwards, towards the measures and pains of his wracked innermosts.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。