worldliness

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11

Definition of worldliness

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

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Etymology

From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly + -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).

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