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worldliness

worldliness noun: the quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

Noun

worldliness (countable and uncountable, plural worldlinesses)

  1. The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
    • There was a coarseness in the one which revolted the almost fastidious delicacy of the other; and Lady Marchmont, full of poetry, touched with romance and sentiment, had nothing in common with the harsh and hard worldliness of Lady Mary; […]1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 186
    • Another thing, which is leaving the divine things with their divinity, the worldly things with their worldliness and the subhuman things with their demoniacality, is, that before a person attains their own redemption and a development of the state about which we were talking with S. Kulovaný, they...2010, Květoslav Minařík, translated by Danica Klempová, “Initiation and self-initiation”, in Yoga and Buddhism in the Life of a Contemporary Person: Collection of Short Texts (The Direct Path; 1)...

worldliness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

worldliness in Hindi

the quality of being worldly
सांसारिकता sānsāriktā, लौकिकता laukiktā

worldliness in Tamil

உலகப்பற்று, மண்ணாசை

worldliness in Urdu

worldliness
دنیا dunyā

worldliness in Telugu

worldliness, worldly-wisdom
లౌకికము laukikamu
More languagesFewer languages
worldliness in Malay
keduniaan
worldliness in Indonesian
keduniawian

Forms of worldliness

pluralworldlinesses

Origin of worldliness

From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly + -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).

Questions about worldliness

What does worldliness mean?
Worldliness means the quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
What is worldliness in Hindi?
Worldliness in Hindi is सांसारिकता (sānsāriktā), लौकिकता (laukiktā). See Worldliness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is worldliness?
Worldliness is a noun.
What is the plural of worldliness?
The plural of worldliness is worldlinesses.

Words near worldliness in the dictionary

  1. worldliest
  2. worldlike
  3. worldlily
  4. worldline
  5. worldlines
  6. worldliness
  7. worldlinesses
  8. worldling
  9. worldlings
  10. worldly
  11. worldly wise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: worldliness (page history and authors); worldliness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دنیا (Urdu) (page history and authors); లౌకికము (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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