a priori vs unworldly

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

unworldly

adj
  • Lacking sophistication. 

  • Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded. 

  • Not belonging to this world; celestial. 

  • Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent. 

How often have the words a priori and unworldly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )