earthly concern

1. 1.

   the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

   “they consider the church to be independent of the world”

   Synonymsworldly concernworldearth

   Broaderconcern

Questions about earthly concern

What does earthly concern mean?

earthly concern means "the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife".

What is another word for earthly concern?

Close synonyms include worldly concern, world, earth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.