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PRONUNCIATION OF OTHERWORLDLINESS

otherworldliness  [ˌʌðəˈwɜːldlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OTHERWORLDLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Otherworldliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OTHERWORLDLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of otherworldliness in the English dictionary

The definition of otherworldliness in the dictionary is the quality of having concern only for the spiritual matters in life, esp together with a disapproval of or lack of interest in ordinary things.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OTHERWORLDLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
dastardliness
ˈdæstədlɪnɪs
deadliness
ˈdedlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
kindliness
ˈkaɪndlɪnɪs
lordliness
ˈlɔːdlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
niggardliness
ˈnɪɡədlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
sluggardliness
ˈslʌɡədlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
unfriendliness
ʌnˈfrendlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
untowardliness
ˌʌntəˈwɔːdlɪnɪs
unwieldliness
ʌnˈwiːldlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OTHERWORLDLINESS

other
other from
other ranks
other than
other things being equal
other world
other-directed
othergates
otherguess
otherness
others
otherwhere
otherwhile
otherwise
otherworldish
otherworldly

WORDS THAT END LIKE OTHERWORLDLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of otherworldliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «otherworldliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OTHERWORLDLINESS

Find out the translation of otherworldliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of otherworldliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «otherworldliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

来世
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

otro mundo
570 millions of speakers

English

otherworldliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

otherworldliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغيبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неотмирность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

otherworldliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

otherworldliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

angélisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebersihan yang lain
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jenseitigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

超俗性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

otherworldliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Liyane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thế khác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

otherworldliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अन्यथा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

otherworldliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

otherworldliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

otherworldliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неотмірного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

otherworldliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκκοσμίκευση-
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

otherworldliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

otherworldliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

otherworldliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of otherworldliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OTHERWORLDLINESS»

The term «otherworldliness» is normally little used and occupies the 132.806 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OTHERWORLDLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «otherworldliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «otherworldliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about otherworldliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OTHERWORLDLINESS»

Discover the use of otherworldliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to otherworldliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Critique of Religion and Philosophy
Otherworldliness. Otherworldliness is the child of disenchantment with this world. Having made room for the possibility of another world in his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant believed in this other world as a place where one might find what ...
Walter Arnold Kaufmann, 1978
2
Divine Transcendence and the Culture of Change
Divine. Transcendence. and. the. Critique. of. Otherworldliness: Luther. The. thesis probed in this third chapter is that Christianity reached its peak of “religious ” development in the Middle Ages. When Diderot proclaimed that “posterity is for the ...
David Henry Hopper, 2010
3
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
To use a set of Weberian dichotomies, we may describe the medieval situation before Luther found himself as one in which “outer-worldly otherworldliness” (the institutional sanction of otherworldliness, or in short, the monasteries) and ...
Sung Ho Kim, 2004
4
Writing, Travel and Empire: Colonial Narratives of Other ...
See Jennifer Schacker-Mill, 'Otherness and otherworldliness: Edward W. Lane's ethnographic treatment of The Arabian Nights,' Journal of American Folklore, 113 (2000), p. 181, n. 5. 57 Kabbani: Imperial Fictions, p. 23. 58 Kabbani: Imperial ...
Peter Hulme, Russell McDougall, 2007
5
Something about Kierkegaard
Very important in Swenson's life as well as his thought was his emphasis on what he called "otherworldliness" and its "transformative power" within the individual's spirituality and hence his desires and his powers to work in the world. Shortly ...
David F. Swenson, 2000
6
Three Faiths-One God: A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Encounter
When this occurs, the vice of sentimental otherworldliness takes place. This point demands careful exposition, for there is a valid sense in which all religious experience claims a transcendent or transworldly reference. We shall presently ...
John Hick, Edmund S. Meltzer, 2012
7
What Does the Lord Require?: How American Christians Think ...
Note that contrary to the stereotype of otherworldliness as anti-modern and anti- rational, in this respect the tradition of otherworldliness made and still makes a contribution to modernity, helping desacralize existing customs and prejudices, and ...
Stephen Hart, 1996
8
God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry
Why do some places, people, and experiences, though strange or exotic, seem so familiar? Or conversely, how does a sense of otherworldliness emerge in the usually prosaic present, as it did, clearly, for Elizabeth Bishop in Santarém?
Cheryl Walker, 2005
9
Faith and Life
THIS. AND. OTHERWORLDLINESS. Matt. 6:33:—"But seek yefirsthis kingdomandhisrighteousness; and allthese thingsshall beaddeduntoyou." THIS verse is in a sense the summing up of the whole lesson of the Sermon on the Mount up to ...
B.B. Warfield
10
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France
Otherworldliness in Ronsard « [La Philosophie] a delié Loing, hors du corps, nostre Ame emprisonnée» «Ils ont les pieds à terre & l'esprit dans les Cieux» ( XIV, 197, v. 101) — one of the profoundly simple insights about the nature of genuine ...
Isidore Silver, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OTHERWORLDLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term otherworldliness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Classical CDs Weekly: William Lawes, Diane Ambache, Tom Poster
Daniel Hyde's flutey chamber organ blends wonderfully well with five or six viols, the group revelling in the music's otherworldliness. Chord ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
2
Can a Tesla survive a weekend of tailgating?
The otherworldliness of the Model S experience leaves little mental bandwidth for that kind of anxiety. Because there's no transmission, there's ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
3
Michael Jackson and Bad Movies: A Brief History of The King's …
His cameo as "Agent M," essentially as himself, was a clever joke and allusion to Jackson's perceived otherworldliness, and we have to give ... «Music Times, Jul 15»
4
Star Whores: John McCain, the Apache and the Battle to Save Mt …
Perhaps, it had to do with the otherworldliness of the ascent, moving out of searing desert through chaparral, scrublands and finally into ever ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
5
Before or synth
The song, “Foundation” is a dreamy mixture of R&B and electronica with an ethereal otherworldliness, all wrapped up in boy-band sincerity, ... «Dallas Voice, Jul 15»
6
Friday TV Flashback: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles …
... milked in T3, Cameron has to be something more, and Summer Glau crafts an otherworldliness that's unique to the Terminators we've seen. «KSiteTV, Jul 15»
7
Kasabian in the Wires
It's a beautiful thing to behold and really emphasises that 'otherworldliness' that makes Kasabian such a stand out band.” Kasabian's tour ... «EtNow.com, Jul 15»
8
Climbing over the edge
Still, it's the otherworldliness of climbing and the jagged beauty of the mountains that most grip the reader. In the collection's finest story, “Ozdon ... «High Country News, Jul 15»
9
No Tears For Tiger
It's dangerous to write off a once in a generation player in any sport because their otherworldliness could very well mean that they have the ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
10
Religion divisive to Jewish family
In addition, the folktales told by Mr. Glassman contribute a sense of otherworldliness to the novel and provide a link to Jewish tradition. Readers ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Otherworldliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/otherworldliness>. May 2024 ».
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