What's the difference between worldliness and worldly?
Worldliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Founded on the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas, it is argued that the rejection of this medical therapy is based on perceptions of pollution and purity inherent in the Watch Tower Society's ideological concept of anti-worldliness.
(2) Careerism and the search for a promotion come under the category of spiritual worldliness.
(3) He has talked of his current squad being the best he has had in terms of their worldliness and the balance between youth and experience.
(4) Ahed, a slight, elfin-faced girl, is a discomforting mix of worldliness and naivety.
(5) The response to this relentlessly publicised public life, to its ambitious mix of worthiness and worldliness and domesticity, has been overwhelmingly positive.
(6) And as such, they are likely to bring a curious mix of absolute vulnerability and worldliness; dependence and aloofness.
(7) If on occasion he was prone to worldliness and cynicism, he nevertheless helped to create a society which provided, for the vast majority of British people, a happier and more secure life than they had ever known.
(8) From London to Lima, Xi’s speeches are peppered with literary and cultural references carefully curated to project an image of wisdom and worldliness.
(9) Spiritual worldliness is a form of religious anthropocentrism that has Gnostic elements.
Worldly
Definition:
(a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
(a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
(a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical.
(adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(3) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(4) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(5) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(6) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(8) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(9) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(10) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(11) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(12) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(13) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(14) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(15) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(16) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(17) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(20) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.