worldliness
Experienced social polish
Worldliness is concern with material and earthly matters rather than spiritual ones.
Religious contexts often use it disapprovingly: The monk warned against worldliness and its temptations.
But worldliness can also mean sophistication—knowledge of how the world works, especially in social or practical affairs: Her worldliness impressed the rural relatives.
The two senses share an orientation toward this world rather than the next.
Nonreligious, worldly
- earthlyOf this world
- temporalRelating to chronology
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
nonspiritual · irreligious · ungodly · carnal · terrestrial · mortal · finite · transient
Culturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- urbaneRefined and courteous
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
- refinedPurified or cultured
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
savoir-faire · elegance · suavity · debonair · cultivated · discerning · savvy · finesse
Things one owns
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
affluence · greed · opulence · avarice · covetousness · mundanity · temporality · commodification
Having visited many places
- globetrottingTraveling widely worldwide
- cosmopoliteCitizen of everywhere
- jet-setterWealthy frequent traveler
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
multicultural · international · cross-cultural · broad-minded · open-minded · adaptable · versatile · multilingual
secular
Nonreligious, worldly
profane · nonspiritual · irreligious · ungodly · carnal · terrestrial · mortal · finite · transient · impermanent
cosmopolitan
Culturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
polished · savoir-faire · elegance · suavity · debonair · cultivated · discerning · savvy · finesse · panache
possessions
Things one owns
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
luxury · affluence · greed · opulence · avarice · covetousness · mundanity · temporality · commodification · prosperity
well-traveled
Having visited many places
- globetrottingTraveling widely worldwide
- cosmopoliteCitizen of everywhere
- jet-setterWealthy frequent traveler
expatriate · multicultural · international · cross-cultural · broad-minded · open-minded · adaptable · versatile · multilingual · exposure
- global mindsetglobal mindset, global awareness, global citizenship, big picture thinking
- worldly attachmentsearthly pleasures, materialism, attachments, possessions, wealth
- innocenceinnocent, innocence, purity, pure, blameless
- mental sharpnessmental agility, mental clarity, mental focus, acumen, sharp mind
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- refinementrefinement, elegance, sophistication, polish, taste
worldlinessspirituality
Connection to the sacred
otherworldliness · godliness · religiosity · spiritualism · piety
worldlinessnaivete
Innocent lack of experience
naivety · innocence · ingenuousness · simplicity · unworldliness
worldlinessasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
renunciation · otherworldliness · austerity · detachment · monasticism
world, worldwide, worldly, worlds, otherworldly, underworld, unworldly