worldliness
1. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment • Syn: sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity • Ant: naivete (for: sophistication) • Derivationally related forms: mundane (for: mundaneness), worldly, sophisticate (for: sophistication) • Hypernyms: quality 2. concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs - he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him • Ant: otherworldliness • Derivationally related forms: worldly • Hypernyms: outwardness, externality
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