worldliness (n.)

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

    [ Syn: sophistication , mundaneness , mundanity ]

  2. concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him'

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