unworldliness
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Obviously, some people must, and yet today a passion for reading seems vaguely quaint, while to be called “bookish” or “learned” verges on an insult, suggesting a slightly ditsy, even elitist unworldliness.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
A score of repetitive, ethereal unworldliness, it lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
Northanger Abbey centers on Catherine Morland, a good-natured but naïve heroine whose unworldliness leads her to misinterpret much of what she sees.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
His unworldliness and vulnerability inspire a protective instinct in Tim, even as Barry’s habit of aggressively messing up everything in Tim’s life inspires and perhaps justifies a degree of cruelty.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
There is a necessary unworldliness about a sincere scientific man; he is too preoccupied with his research to plan and scheme how to make money out of it.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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