Definition of Otherworldliness

1. Noun. Concern with things of the spirit.

Exact synonyms: Spiritism, Spiritualism, Spirituality
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

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othermothers
otherness
othernesses
others
othersome
othertimes
otherways
otherwhere
otherwhile
otherwhiles
otherwise
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otherworld
otherworldish
otherworldliness
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otherworlds
otherworldy
othman
othonna
otic
otic abscess
otic barotrauma
otic bone
otic capsule
otic ganglion
otic pits
otic placodes

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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