| 单词 | worldliness |
| 释义 | worldliness (once / 6450 pages) 1n 2n Your worldliness means that you've had enough experience, through travel and meeting different kinds of people, that you understand the way the world works. Use the noun worldliness to talk about a person's awareness of and connection with the larger world. It implies a certain amount of style and poise as well, a graceful, knowing way of moving through the world. As a child, you might admire your older cousin's worldliness as she travels across Asia. The adjective worldly comes from the Old English woruldlic, which combines woruld, "human affairs or the world" and gelic, "like or similar." WORD FAMILYworldliness: worldlinesses+/underworld: underworlds/world: underworld, worldly, worlds/worldly: unworldly, worldlier, worldliest, worldliness USAGE EXAMPLES“There was corruption in the church, worldliness, attachment to money and power,” Francis told reporters this summer. Seattle Times(Oct 30, 2016) I ordered spaghetti à la Caruso, trying to impress her with my worldliness — I didn’t know it was made with chicken livers, which I hated. Los Angeles Times(Oct 28, 2016) A secular chapel might seem an impossible contradiction in terms — an unsustainable union of worldliness and divinity. Los Angeles Times(Oct 15, 2016) 1 n the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment 2Syn|Ant|Hyper mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication naiveness, naivete, naivety lack of sophistication or worldliness quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone n concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him Ant|Hyper otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality concern with things of the spirit externality, outwardness the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior |
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