innie

noun

in·​nie ˈi-nē How to pronounce innie (audio)
plural innies
informal
: a navel that is concave
It was a fine belly-button; I kept it clean, I was proud to have such an attractive innie.Alexa Erickson
Got an innie? You're in the majority. Ninety percent of humans have innies.David Freeman
compare outie

Examples of innie in a Sentence

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Of the four outies, Helena is unquestionably the most different from her innie. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025 Won’t their outies find out about the rebellion their innies launched? Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 The first season ended with quite the cliffhanger as the show’s protagonists attempted to expose their employer through an override mechanism where their innies awakened and experienced life as their outies. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Or Helly is Helena, sent down to spy on the group when her innie remains locked up somewhere. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 Their innies, by contrast, live a nightmarish existence. Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025 Irving’s innie awakens to find that his outie has been obsessively researching Lumon, painting his home with unsettling black-and-white imagery close to the innie-reality. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025 Helly’s Rebellion Helly’s innie is not a fan of severance or Lumon. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025 Dylan and his wife, Gretchen (Merritt Wever), work opposite schedules while raising their three kids, and Irving seeks to understand his innie’s connection to Burt (Christopher Walken), a former employee of Lumon's Optics and Design department. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025

Word History

Etymology

in entry 2 + -ie

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of innie was in 1966

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“Innie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innie. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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