worldliness

Signification (Anglais)

The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

Concepts

sophistication

mondanité

connaissance

grossier

vulgaire

Synonymes

vulgarity

sophistication

secularity

mundaneness

mundanity

world

🗺️

common people

earthliness

worldly wisdom

worldly ambition

indecency

laity

manner

manners

materialism

cosmopolitanism

popular

secularism

complexity

vulgar

coarseness

adeptness

society life

common customs

mundane things

unholy desires

wordly troubles

mammonism

customs

🛃

custom

delusion

experience

illusion

Traductions

Weltlichkeit

κοσμικότητα

mundanería

mondanità

weltliche Gesinnung

sofisticació

sofisticação

irdische Leben

niedriger Geschmack

weltliche Begierden

κοσμικότης

υλισμός

secularitas

sofisticação intelectual

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: worldlynesse

Appartenant à frison occidental: wrâldlikens

In summary

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