worldly

worldly desires

Desires for tangible things (such as wealth, property, or other material goods) or for pleasures of the body (such as sexual activity, gluttony, or other hedonistic pursuits). Buddhism teaches us to try to let go of our worldly desires, freeing our minds and bodies for a state of enlightenment. Because our worldly desires are a reflection of our sins, we should shun them if we wish to receive God's light.
See also: desire, worldly

worldly wisdom

Knowledge gained from experience and everyday life. My dad never finished college, but he has much more worldly wisdom than I do, as a perpetual student.
See also: wisdom, worldly
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • worldly desires
  • earthly
  • earthly desires
  • all or nothing
  • eat one's cake and have it (too)
  • eat one's cake and have it, too
  • get (one's) (own) way
  • get one's way
  • get/have your way
  • go your own way
References in periodicals archive
Actress Marian Newman as Jess in "Morning has broken" from Jan Bengree's "Worldly Women", produced by theatre company Against The Grain as part of Storyhouse-Women
Muscat: Muscat Media Group is set to present award-winning designs on Monday, 7 PM at the Omani Society of Fine Arts in Muscat, in an exhibition which will contain other worldly designs from Times of Oman and Al Shabiba newspapers, both of which have won international awards for their designs.
Same with all other worldly riches and possessions.
He said relations between children and their parents are free from any worldly demand.
He said the objective of establishment of Seerat Chairs in the universities was to promote a culture of research and analysis so that the solution to the issues emanating from the worldly changes could be sorted out.
He said he had already visited the Hatip schools system during his visit to Turkey and was impressed of their standards of religious and worldly education to the children.
Second, what are the basic values we will use to determine the appropriate amount of regulation, and especially to what extent is the accumulation of worldly goods one of our basic values?
We do not primarily relate to things in a disinterested objectifying stance (what Heidegger calls vorhandeheit, the present-at-hand), but rather through the manner in which things reveal themselves to us in their worldly relations (what Heidegger calls zuhandenheit, the ready-to-hand).
In contrast, we tend to live in a bifurcated world in which spirituality is on the lofty side and worldly activities much lower.
After starting with Brazilets - prayer bracelets from Brazil - Kael Robinson has continued to combine social consciousness and entrepreneurship via her importer Live Worldly, which changed its moniker from Live Brazilian after a Wall Street Journal article last October generated inquiries from all over the world.
WORLDLY WISE can belatedly get off the mark over hurdles in the first division of Tipperary's Glenview And Rathbarry Studs Handicap Hurdle (5.40).
DURING Lent, we're reminded that Jesus went into the desert for 40 days, where He was tempted to turn stones into bread; to prove how great He was, and where He was tempted with worldly goods.
Provincializing the worldly citizen; Yugoslav student and teacher travel and Slavic cosmopolitanism in the interwar era.