Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Wisdom, knowledge, or understanding about the world; experience; philosophy.

Origin

From Middle English *worldwisdom, (found only as worldes wisdom (literally “world's wisdom

From Middle English *worldwisdom, (found only as worldes wisdom (literally “world's wisdom”)), from Old English woruldwīsdōm (“worldly wisdom, science”), equivalent to world + wisdom.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Word family

1 related words
Relatedworldwise

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
worldwisdom — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto