worldliness

/ˈwɜrldlinəs/

Other forms: worldlinesses

Your worldliness means that you've had enough experience, through travel and meeting different kinds of people, that you understand the way the world works.

Use the noun worldliness to talk about a person's awareness of and connection with the larger world. It implies a certain amount of style and poise as well, a graceful, knowing way of moving through the world. As a child, you might admire your older cousin's worldliness as she travels across Asia. The adjective worldly comes from the Old English woruldlic, which combines woruld, "human affairs or the world" and gelic, "like or similar."

Definitions of worldliness

1. noun

   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
   synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
2. noun

   concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
   “he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him”

   antonyms:

   otherworldliness

   concern with things of the spirit

   type of:

   exteriority, externality, outwardness

   the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior