this-worldliness

[this-wurld-lee-nis]

noun

1. concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.

Other Word Forms

• this-worldly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of this-worldliness¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Present-day movements, however, tend to subordinate religion to this-worldliness rather than to other-worldliness, and by just that much they take out of religion its real significance.

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His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness.

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He is the poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature.

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Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness.

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There is in him this-worldliness, but not other-worldliness, his characters not seeming to the full to have a sense of the invisible world.

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