- worldliness
- world·li·ness
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worldliness
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Worldliness — World li*ness, n. The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly mindedness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
worldliness — index experience (background) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
worldliness — worldly ► ADJECTIVE (wordlier, wordliest) 1) of or concerned with material affairs rather than spiritual ones. 2) experienced and sophisticated. ● worldly goods (or possessions or wealth) Cf. ↑worldly wealth DERI … English terms dictionary
worldliness — noun 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) … Useful english dictionary
worldliness — noun see worldly … New Collegiate Dictionary
worldliness — See worldly. * * * … Universalium
worldliness — noun The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world … Wiktionary
worldliness — world·li·ness || wÉœrldlɪnɪs / wÉœË n. materiality, earthliness; mundaneness; secularity … English contemporary dictionary
worldliness — See: worldly … English dictionary
worldliness — Суетность … Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов
