Mundane vs World - What's the difference?
mundane | world |
worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly
Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
ordinary; not new
tedious; repetitive and boring
An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
(slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1959
, date = December 1
, first = Ron
, last = Bennett
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, magazine = Skyrack
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, issue = 10
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, passage = THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.
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* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1989
, date = Spring
, first = Lawrence
, last = Person
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, title = Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom
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, volume = 2
, issue = 3 (whole number 7)
, page = 10
, passage = The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes . The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’
}}
* 1996 , "Angel of Death", furries vs. mundanes'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.furry )
(fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1966
, date = November
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, title = Our Authors
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-34.html
, volume =
, issue = 4
, page = 35
, passage = Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.
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Human collective existence; existence in general.
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, passage=The world' was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the ' world , and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The Universe.
The Earth.
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, title= (lb) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
* 2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) A great amount.
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x:
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , published by Stanford University Press, ISBN-13 978-0804750714:
To make real; to make worldly.
As nouns the difference between mundane and world
is that mundane is an unremarkable, ordinary human being while world is human collective existence; existence in general.As an adjective mundane
is worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.As a verb world is
to consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.mundane
English
Adjective
(er)- Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.
Synonyms
* (of the earth) worldly * banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejuneAntonyms
* heavenly * arcaneReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- Some people just think your (SIC) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot (SIC) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes .
Synonyms
* (ordinary person) See * (mainstream person) SeeDerived terms
* mundanely * mundaneness * mundanitySee also
* (pedialite) Article on the use of “mundane” as a derogatory term.Anagrams
* ----world
English
Noun
(wikipedia world)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world , and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio :
- I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world , buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* (the earth) Earth, the earth, the globe, Sol III * (a planet) * (individual or group perspective or social setting) circleDerived terms
* dead to the world * end of the world * fast-paced world * First World * Fourth World * free world * have the world by the tail * Light of the World * not the end of the world * mean the world to * New World * Old World * out of this world * phenomenal world * real-world * Second World * think the world of * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * the world is one's oyster * Third World * umbworld * underworld * way of the world / ways of the world * weight of the world * world-class * worldly * world peace * world power * World Series * world soul * world war * World War I * World War II * world-weary * worldwide * World Wide WebVerb
(en verb)- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
- In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.