Worldliness

Quick meaning: Worldliness is a noun meaning The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

Meaning

The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• worldlinesses

Synonyms for worldliness

Depending on context, synonyms include sophistication.

Antonyms for worldliness

Common opposites include naivete, naiveness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sophistication, worldhood, worldness, unworldliness, this-worldliness, unworldiness.

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