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this-worldly adjective (alsothisworldly)uk /ˌðɪsˈwɜːld.li/ us /ˌðɪsˈwɝːld.li/ more interested in ordinary life than in spiritual things: The ancient Greeks seem very this-worldly when you compare them to the people of the Middle Ages. She sees Judaism as an intensely this-worldly faith. We have been engaged in an increasingly thisworldly search for happiness. Shamanistic religions tend to be materialistic and this-worldly. Pantheism involves a this-worldly vision based on the relationship between the individual and Nature. He draws on this-worldly expertise to add credibility to the world he has invented. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs agnosticism Anglicanism animist anti-Catholic anti-Catholicism fetishistic heresy heretical heretically humanism humanistic humanistically mysticism orthodoxy religiously scriptural scripturally superstitiously theodicy theologically
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