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3.8 Worldly - Spiritual
secular, mundane, corporeal, realistic
secular, temporal, worldly : mundane = quotidian = routine = unremarkable
= everyday^ diurnal : nocturnal
• (secular)- of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not
regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal, ( ; ;
- ); It's a word shared by both the sacred and the secular, the
religious and profane, the worldly and the other-worldly. — Iowa State Daily;
• (temporal)- pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world;
•
worldly, ( ; ); The pagan conceptions of virtue were merely
materialistic, temporal, and self-regarding. — Christianity and Ethics A
Handbook of Christian Ethics;
• (mundane)- common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative, ( , ,
, , , );
• of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly;
earthly, ( , , ); Similarly, when buying and wearing
clothes, by beautiful intentions we can transform otherwise
mundane worldly events into actions beloved to Allah;
• (quotidian)- usual or customary; everyday, ( , ); I am drawn
to stories about the quotidian - marriage, friendship, childhood, work, life,
death. — California Literary Review;
• (diurnal)- of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily, ( ,
, ); We fall in for our diurnal labours in comparative
solitude, usually in heavy rain and without pomp. — The First Hundred
Thousand;
• (nocturnal)- done at night, ( ; ); Dwarf crocodiles are
shy, nocturnal, and, not surprisingly, the smallest of crocodile species;
corporeal = material = somatic
• (corporeal)- of the nature of the physical body; bodily; material; tangible,
( ); If then the retribution of the soul is corporeal, there is no need of
resurrection. — A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy;
• (material)- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests;