Worldliness Synonyms and Antonyms

Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sophistication
  2. mundaneness
  3. mundanity
Antonyms:
  1. otherworldliness

Words Related to Worldliness

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Worldliness Sentence Examples

  • With growth in popular esteem came increase in material wealth, leading to luxury and worldliness.

  • Martin, too, had denounced the worldliness and greed of the Gaulish bishops and clergy.

  • In his own home a man hears only worldly talk; the disease of worldliness has become chronic with him.

  • The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom, who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, resulted in his fall and exile (404).

  • Though conspicuously uniting faith in Christ with spiritual maturity, there are evidences that, like other Valentinians, Heracleon did not sufficiently emphasize abstinence from the moral laxity and worldliness into which his followers fell.

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