this-worldly
adjEtymology From this world + -ly; analogous to other-worldly.
1
Pertaining to or concerned with material human existence, as opposed to spiritual or religious matters.
- The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane.1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
- Changing attitudes to death and Hell mark a growth of this-worldly concerns in a large part of contemporary Christianity.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 1014:
- Antonyms
- other-worldly
- Derived terms
- this-worldliness