worldhood

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English

Etymology

From world +‎ -hood.

Noun

worldhood (plural worldhoods)

  1. (rare) A worldly possession.
    • 1841, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature:
      Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods.
  2. The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
    • 1992, Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism:
      It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods.
    • 2005, Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time:
      The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.