俗ぞく情じょう

noun

worldly-mindedness; worldly affairs

Refers to the concerns, customs, or mentality of the secular world, often with a nuance of being bound by common, unenlightened thinking. Somewhat literary.

• 彼かれは俗ぞく情じょうを離はなれて山やまにこもった。

  He retreated to the mountains, leaving worldly affairs behind.

• 俗ぞく情じょうに惑まどわされずに生いきるのは難むずかしい。

  It is difficult to live without being swayed by worldly concerns.