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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world..
There was a coarseness in the one which revolted the almost fastidious delicacy of the other; and Lady Marchmont, full of poetry, touched with romance and sentiment, had nothing in common with the harsh and hard worldliness of Lady Mary; […]
Another thing, which is leaving the divine things with their divinity, the worldly things with their worldliness and the subhuman things with their demoniacality, is, that before a person attains their own redemption and a development of the state about which we were talking with S. Kulovaný, they have to be educated not to themselves destroy the state, attained by a successful initiation, by their worldliness which is rooted in their mind.
Use worldliness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Worldliness means The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world..
Common synonyms include sophistication.
Possible antonyms include naivety, naivete, naiveness.
There was a coarseness in the one which revolted the almost fastidious delicacy of the other; and Lady Marchmont, full of poetry, touched with romance and sentiment, had nothing in common with the harsh and hard worldliness of Lady Mary; […]
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