worldliness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world. countable,uncountable
    — There was a coarseness in the one which revolted the almost fastidious delicacy of the other; and Lady Marchmont, full of poetry, touched with romance and sentiment, had nothing in common with the harsh and hard worldliness of Lady Mary; […]

词形变化

worldlinesses plural

词源

From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly + -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).
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