What is the meaning of worldliness?

noun

  • The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
  • Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs.
    • usage: "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"
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