worldliness

1. 1.

   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

   Synonymssophisticationmundanenessmundanity

   Broaderquality
2. 2.

   concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs

   “he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him”

   Antonymsotherworldliness

   Broaderoutwardness

Other forms of worldliness

plural

worldlinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about worldliness

What does worldliness mean?

worldliness means "the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in worldliness?

worldliness has 3 syllables: world-li-ness. The stress falls on "world". In IPA it is /ˈwɝldlinəs/.

What is another word for worldliness?

Close synonyms include sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity. 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.

What is the opposite of worldliness?

The recorded antonyms are otherworldliness.

Is worldliness a common word?

worldliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.