unworldliness
- a word derived from unworldly.
Example Sentences
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Obviously, some people must, and yet today a passion for reading seems vaguely quaint, while to be called “bookish” or “learned” verges on an insult, suggesting a slightly ditsy, even elitist unworldliness.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
But the idiom of “realism” masks a surprising unworldliness.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2020
A score of repetitive, ethereal unworldliness, it lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
Geoffrey Streatfeild as Protasov follows a basic rule of acting by playing the character from his own point of view, as a man who believes his visionary experiments justify his unworldliness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
Nor was the constant struggle against financial need, leading as it did to many undesirable expedients for raising money, really compatible with either dignity or unworldliness.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
