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单词 worldliness
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worldliness

/ˈwəːldlɪnəs /
noun [mass noun]
1The quality of being experienced and sophisticated: both display wisdom and worldliness of much older men my transition from childish cluelessness to teenage worldliness...
  • At the time I was gobsmacked at his sheer lack of worldliness.
  • Supposedly, we are mature, educated individuals who boast a worldliness beyond our years.
  • To the cosmopolitan elite, wine means sophistication, worldliness, a place on the global stage.
2Concern with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence: Chaucer drew attention to clerical avarice and worldliness...
  • Our thought has become enslaved by 'worldliness'.
  • Buddism's call to renounce worldliness is itself a call for separation, akin to Christianity's.
  • But when I got a better grasp of biblical teaching, I saw worldliness in sharper perspective.
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