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The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
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worldliness
Word definitions for worldliness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: sophistication ] [ant: naivete ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of worldliness.
Nature, who has power to heal even the worldliness and the uncharity of man.
She watched and admired his careful movements, realizing she admired even more his presence of mind and worldliness, especially his knowledge of things like gnolls, which she had never before encountered.
Deep down in him, overlaid with years of worldliness, there was a belief in a life after death.
The sins of Lukewarmness, loss of our first love, unprofitableness under the Gospel, slumbering and sleeping in the wise, as well as foolish Virgins, worldliness, pride, carnal security, and many other sins.