WORLDLINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)