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Definition of Otherworldliness
1. Noun. Concern with things of the spirit.
Generic synonyms: Internality, Inwardness
Derivative terms: Otherworldly, Spiritualist, Spiritual
Antonyms: Worldliness
Definition of Otherworldliness
1. Noun. The quality of being otherworldly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Otherworldliness
Literary usage of Otherworldliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lame and Lovely: Essays on Religion for Modern Minds by Frank Crane (1912)
"That is to say, in reaching for otherworldliness they have overlooked the manner
and pattern of it, the life of the Master himself. ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"The church of the past has therefore had laid against her the charge of
otherworldliness—that is, that she was concerned more with the other world than with ..."
3. Artists and Thinkers by Louis William Flaccus (1916)
"The otherworldliness of Parsifal? Anathema! He had once been a great admirer of
Siegfried; he had seen in him and in the Edda characters strength and ..."
4. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"of a new spiritual life, yet this life was at first entangled in a onesided
idealistic innerness and otherworldliness, and estranged itself from the real ..."
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