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otherworldliness|ˌʌðəˈwɜːldlɪnɪs|
[f. the phrase other world, after worldliness.]
1. Devotion to the other world, or to the interests of a future life; esp. the disposition to consider the future state and neglect the affairs of the present; a spirit of worldliness as applied to the future life; morbid, ascetic, or selfish spirituality.
a1834S. T. Coleridge Lett. & Recoll. (1836) I. 98–9 As there is a worldliness or the too-much of this Life, so there is another-worldliness, or rather other-worldliness, equally hateful and selfish with this worldliness. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 5. 1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. viii. vii. 601 Other-worldliness..is a feeling in which the representation of divine approval goes along with a representation of future happiness to be secured by that approval. 1882Fiske in Harper's Mag. Dec. 117/1 The error of mediæval anchorites and mystics in setting an exaggerated value upon otherworldliness.
2. The quality attributed to an ideal world apart from the actual.
1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 172 Full of life and light and the other-worldliness of poetry. 1898Fortn. Rev. LXIV. 291 Burne-Jones..one defines him with true apprehension as the Painter of Otherworldliness. |