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worldhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From world + -hood.

Meanings

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

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