worldliness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
    mundaneness; mundanity; sophistication.
  2. noun concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
    • he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him

WordNet


World"li*ness noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913