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Noun: worldliness  wurld-lee-nus
  1. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
    - sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity
     
  2. Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
    "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"

Type of: exteriority, externality, outwardness, quality

Antonym: spirituality

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