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WORLDLINESS
The mental attitude of a person who is guided by secular ideas rather than by religious principles, and whose primary concern is for well-being in this life and not in the life to come.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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