sophistication

  • 21sophistication — /səfɪstəˈkeɪʃən / (say suhfistuh kayshuhn) noun 1. sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc. 2. change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition. 3. impairment… …

  • 22sophistication — sophisticate ► VERB 1) make more discerning and aware of complex issues through education or experience. 2) make more complex or refined. ► NOUN ▪ a sophisticated person. DERIVATIVES sophistication noun. ORIGIN Latin sophisticare tamper with ,… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 23sophistication — noun Date: 15th century 1. a. the use of sophistry ; sophistic reasoning b. sophism, quibble 2. the process or result of becoming cultured, knowledgeable, or disillusioned; especially cultivation, urbanity 3. the process or result of becoming… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24SOPHISTICATION — n. f. Action de sophistiquer, de frelater des produits …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 25sophistication — noun /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ a) Enlightenment or education. b) Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir faire. Ant: provincialism …

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  • 26sophistication — Synonyms and related words: accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 27sophistication — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. affectation;worldliness, veneer. See skill, knowledge.Ant., naiveté. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. savoir faire, savoir vivre, tact, poise, refinement, finesse, social grace; see also composure , elegance 1 …

    English dictionary for students

  • 28sophistication — so·phis·ti·ca·tion || sə‚fɪstɪ keɪʃn n. worldliness, experience; complexity …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 29sophistication — n. 1. Adulteration, corruption, vitiation. 2. Quibbling. 3. Quibble, fallacious argument, sophism …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 30sophistication — n 1. worldliness, knowledgeableness, knowledgeability, wide experience; urbanity, suaveness, suavity, tact, savoir faire; polish, finesse, refinement, knowing what fork to use, culture; elegance, savoir vivre, style, graciousness; good taste,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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