worldliness

worldliness: noun

1. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• Syn: ↑sophistication, ↑mundaneness, ↑mundanity

• Ant: ↑naivete (for: ↑sophistication)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑mundane (for: ↑mundaneness), ↑worldly, ↑sophisticate (for: ↑sophistication)

• Hypernyms: ↑quality

2. concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs

- he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him

• Ant: ↑otherworldliness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑worldly

• Hypernyms: ↑outwardness, ↑externality

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Worldliness — World li*ness, n. The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly mindedness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
worldliness — index experience (background) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
worldliness — worldly ► ADJECTIVE (wordlier, wordliest) 1) of or concerned with material affairs rather than spiritual ones. 2) experienced and sophisticated. ● worldly goods (or possessions or wealth) Cf. ↑worldly wealth DERI … English terms dictionary
worldliness — noun see worldly … New Collegiate Dictionary
worldliness — See worldly. * * * … Universalium
worldliness — noun The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world … Wiktionary
worldliness — worldÂ·liÂ·ness || wÉœrldlÉªnÉªs / wÉœË n. materiality, earthliness; mundaneness; secularity … English contemporary dictionary
worldliness — world·li·ness … English syllables
worldliness — See: worldly … English dictionary
worldliness — Суетность … Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов

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