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worldliness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication |
| Type of | quality |
| Derivation | worldly |
worldliness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | externality, outwardness |
| Derivation | worldly |
he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him.
Examples of worldliness
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Fitzgerald's worldliness was European, but his wistfulness was uniquely American.
From the economist.com
Peter absorbed not merely their content but worldliness and a style of expression.
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She is small and intense, with a hint of other-worldliness signifying genius.
From the online.wsj.com
After the invasion this is what the Americans lacked the worldliness to understand.
From the theatlantic.com
Aquarians are imbued with a glorious spirituality and other worldliness now.
From the courier-journal.com
To instill some worldliness in the brood, his mother spoke French at the dinner table.
From the businessweek.com
City kids are hip and cultured and privileged to a purview that inspires worldliness.
From the parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
Among the other-worldliness of the rolling hills, their love appears entirely natural.
From the economist.com
He's running around the bed and laughing, pants off and all his worldliness out to air.
From the democratandchronicle.com
- Sophistication: the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"
- (worldly) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"
- (worldly) blase: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
- World is a key concept in theology.
- The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world
- (WORLDLY) Having to do with secular values.
- (Worldly) Anyone who is not a Jehovah's Witness.
