worldliness

English

Etymology

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

Noun

worldliness (countable and uncountable, plural worldlinesses)

1. The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 186:

     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;...

Translations

the quality of being worldly

• Plautdietsch: Weltlichkjeit f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: mundo (es) m, mundología f