WORLDLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worldliness mean? 

• WORLDLINESS (noun)
  The noun WORLDLINESS has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: WORLDLINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLDLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

mundaneness; mundanity; sophistication; worldliness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him

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)