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noun
The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: otherworldliness
Broader terms: outwardness, externality
noun
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quality
History
From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly + -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
