worldly pleasure
Sensual material gratification
Worldly pleasure refers to enjoyment derived from material, physical, or sensory experiences rather than spiritual or intellectual pursuits.
The phrase often carries religious or philosophical overtones, implying indulgence in earthly delights—food, drink, sex, wealth, entertainment—as opposed to higher callings: He renounced worldly pleasures to join the monastery.
The term can be neutral or disapproving depending on context.
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- good lifeFulfilling, pleasant existence
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
creature comforts · decadence · fine dining · carnal · flesh · temptation · forbidden fruit · desire · excess · opulence · revelry · debauchery · materialism · earthly · sin · vanity · appetite · gratification
- FaustianMephistopheles, Faust, Goethe, devil pact, Dr. Faustus
- Carvakamaterialism, atheism, anti-ritualism
worldly pleasurespiritual fulfillment
Profound inner completeness
divine grace · heavenly bliss · spiritual ecstasy · transcendence · beatitude
worldly pleasureasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
self-denial · renunciation · abstinence · austerity · self-mortification
worldly pleasureeternal reward
Heaven earned through faith
eternal life · kingdom of heaven · immortal soul · everlasting life
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