**Temporal** is the word that you seek because it delivers the meaning that you intend without having a familiar positive meaning attached to it, like the word *worldly*. **temporal** (adj.) - of or relating to time. - pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. - enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (opposed to eternal). - secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to ecclesiastical.