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Worldliness vs Worldhood - What's the difference?

worldliness | worldhood |

As nouns the difference between worldliness and worldhood

is that worldliness is the quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world while worldhood is (rare) a worldly possession.

worldliness

English

Noun

  • The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

    • worldhood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A worldly possession.
  • *1841 , Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature :
    • Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods .
  • The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
  • *1992 , Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism :
    • It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods .
  • *2005 , Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time :
    • The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.