worldliness.

1. Experience of ordinary social life and an understanding of how people and society work.

2. Concern with material possessions, social success, or ordinary earthly pleasures rather than spiritual matters.

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Words that belong together

• air of worldliness
• social worldliness

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Her apparent worldliness surprised the relatives who still thought of her as a child.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, description. Commonness: moderately common.