unworldliness
Ignorance of practicalities
Unworldliness is detachment from material concerns and worldly affairs—the quality of being naive about practical matters or indifferent to wealth, status, and ambition.
It can suggest spiritual purity or impractical idealism: His unworldliness made him ill-suited for business.
The word often carries a note of admiration mixed with concern.
Uncontaminated quality
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- ingenuousnessInnocent frankness, without cunning
- uncorruptedNot spoiled or debased
untainted · childlike · unspoiled · wholesomeness · unblemished · sincerity · openheartedness · trustfulness
Cloistered religious living
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- hermitageSecluded religious dwelling
abstinence · fasting · simplicity · detachment · celibacy · mortification · spartan · frugality
Surpassing usual limits
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- divineOf or from gods
sacred · enlightenment · heavenly · celestial · devotion · holiness · soulfulness · sanctity
Belief in noble principles
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- dreaminessVague, unfocused mental state
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- head-in-cloudsLost in fantasy
visionary · starry-eyed · romantic · utopian · impracticality · oblivious · absent-minded · detached
purity
Uncontaminated quality
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- ingenuousnessInnocent frankness, without cunning
uncorrupted · untainted · childlike · unspoiled · wholesomeness · unblemished · sincerity · openheartedness · trustfulness · gentleness
monasticism
Cloistered religious living
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
hermitage · abstinence · fasting · simplicity · detachment · celibacy · mortification · spartan · frugality · withdrawal
transcendence
Surpassing usual limits
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
divine · sacred · enlightenment · heavenly · celestial · devotion · holiness · soulfulness · sanctity · nirvana
idealism
Belief in noble principles
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- dreaminessVague, unfocused mental state
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
head-in-clouds · visionary · starry-eyed · romantic · utopian · impracticality · oblivious · absent-minded · detached · ivory-tower
- childlike innocenceinnocence, wonder, curiosity, playfulness, imagination
- naivetenaivety, naive, innocence, gullible, gullibility
- self-disciplineself-discipline, self-control, self-regulation, restraint, impulse control
- sinceritysincerity, sincere, genuine, genuineness, honesty
- simple livingsimple living, frugality, minimalism, decluttering, back-to-the-land
unworldlinessworldliness
Secular, experienced outlook
sophistication · worldly wisdom · experience · savoir-faire · cosmopolitanism
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Secular, experienced outlook
materialism · earthliness · carnality · secularism · acquisitiveness
unworldlinesscynicism
Distrust of human sincerity
artfulness · guile · skepticism · suspiciousness · wariness
world, worldly, otherworldly, unworldly, worldliness, otherworldliness