The condition or quality of being secular. Occupation with secular affairs (on the part of clergymen); secular spirit or behaviour. Also…

The world (in the religious sense).

worldliness.

The condition of being worldly; devotion to worldly affairs to the neglect of religious duties or spiritual needs; love of the world and its…

worldliness; (also) the quality the characterizes the world.

The quality or fact of belonging to the world; worldliness. In plural: †worldly concerns or pursuits (obsolete).

Secularity, worldliness.

The state of being unspiritual or unregenerate; unspirituality, worldliness.

Carnal quality or state; unspirituality; sensuality.

The quality of belonging to the earth; the properties of material or non-spiritual things; worldliness.

(in translations of or allusions to biblical passages, especially Galatians 4:3, where alternatively ‘elements of the world’, but variously…

Materialistic scepticism and denial of immortality considered as characteristic of the Sadducees; spec. denial of the existence of witches…

= Sadduceeism, n. 1.

the quality or condition of being earthly-minded.

The quality of being temporal.

the state or quality of being worldly-minded.

as opposed to spirituality. Obsolete.

Secular character; secularity. Obsolete.

Earthliness; fleshliness; carnality. Obsolete.

In extended use. Theology (depreciative). Excessive emphasis on the material aspects of the sacraments, at the expense of the spiritual aspects.

The quality of being unspiritual.

The doctrine that morality should be based solely on regard to the well-being of humankind in the… As the name of a definitely professed system of…

worldliness (as a way of life), secularity.

The spirit of ‘the world’ (as opposed to a religious spirit); secularism; addiction to temporal or mundane interests.

devotion to the things of this world.

= this-worldliness n.

= this-worldliness n.