this-worldliness
世俗性,世态炎凉,世俗,世故
Definitions
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- : concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
Examples
This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.
But the two presenting together, as they did here at the 2008 Emmy Awards, is an out-of-this-world combination.
But on the relative plane, Zen is this-worldly and does not deny ethics, or ontology for that matter.
Michelle King: But her worldliness or pragmatism, it's not as though it's being led by what Peter and his campaign are doing.
The bogus cry of this-raises-serious-concerns was soon heard throughout the land.
I hurt you when I say that, but I want you to be my good friend, as always, in spite of my worldliness.
Rodney is thoroughly and comfortably this-worldly; Michael is—other-worldly!
What has made thy heart so sore as to come and cry a-this-ons?
For marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
And it has to be said that Elsie April in all her young and radiant splendour and woman-of-the-worldliness was equally stiff.