the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Exclusive or paramount attention to the things of the present life; worldliness; secularism.
Word Usage
"Indeed her secularity is the necessary condition of the cosmopolitan fantasy of the Byronic hero: the fantasy of never being tied down, of never having to"