How do you pronounce worldliness?

The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɝldlinəs/.

Where does worldliness come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/wˈɝldlinəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

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noun

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; […]"
"Another thing, which is leaving the divine things with their divinity, the worldly things with their worldliness and the subhuman things with their demoniacality, is, that before a person attains their own redemption and a development of the state about which we were talking with S. Kulovaný, they have to be educated not to themselves destroy the state, attained by a successful initiation, by their worldliness which is rooted in their mind."

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

worldlinesses (plural)

this-worldliness

this-worldliness