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Worldliness

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world·ly  (wûrldl)
adj. world·li·er, world·li·est
1. Of, relating to, or devoted to the temporal world.
2. Experienced in human affairs; sophisticated or worldly-wise: "an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere" Willa Cather.
adv.
In a worldly manner.
worldli·ness n.
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Noun1.worldliness - the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
2.worldliness - concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"
externality, outwardness - the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"
otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality, spiritualism - concern with things of the spirit


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I don't wish to act otherwise than as your best friend, Vincy, when I say that what you have been uttering just now is one mass of worldliness and inconsistent folly.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
(3) to withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Here one has conventional worldly notions and habits without instruction and without polish, surely the most prosaic form of human life; proud respectability in a gig of unfashionable build; worldliness without side-dishes.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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