worldly 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”

   Synonymsearthly concernworldearth

   Broaderconcern

Questions about worldly concern

What does worldly concern mean?

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

What is another word for worldly concern?

Close synonyms include earthly 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.