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WORLDLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
Example:
he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("worldliness" is a kind of...):
externality; outwardness (the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior)
Antonym:
otherworldliness (concern with things of the spirit)
Derivation:
worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Synonyms:
mundaneness; mundanity; sophistication; worldliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("worldliness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
worldly (very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world)
