| Meaning | characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. |
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| Example | "worldly goods and advancement" |
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| Synonyms | secular, temporal |
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| Narrower | economic | concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money) |
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| material | concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests |
| materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded | marked by materialism |
| mundane, terrestrial | concerned with the world or worldly matters |
| See also | earthly | Of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven |
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| profane, secular | not concerned with or devoted to religion |
| sophisticated | Having or appealing to those having worldly / worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
| Opposite | unworldly | not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations |
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| Spanish | mundano, temporal |
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| Catalan | temporal |
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| Nouns | world | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife |
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| worldliness | concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs |
