sophistication
IPA: sʌfɪstʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Enlightenment or education.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Falsification or contamination.
- Complexity.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
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Examples of "sophistication" in Sentences
- Betsy can be described as sophistication.
- His rhythmic sophistication was unequaled.
- The difference is in sophistication and accuracy.
- The issue is one of semantics and sophistication.
- But it does so with such subtlety, panache and sophistication.
- In Madrid, the first and last word in elegance and sophistication.
- As for Hill, she, too, lacked a certain sophistication or judgment.
- Political sophistication is partly code for "giving politicians money" it seems.
- The stakes are now far too large, and the degree of financial sophistication is now far too great, often PhD machinations.
- Insurgents 'tactics, techniques, and procedures for conducting complex attacks are increasing in sophistication and strategic effect.
- I think her brand was Chock Full O 'Nuts, which, when I moved out on my own years later, came to represent the ultimate in sophistication for me.
- The juxtaposition between sweet, goofy Miss Swanson from the Door Store commercials and this … erm .. level of sophistication is a real eye-opener.
- Their last album was an exercise in sophistication and versatility, with echoes of Gypsy jazz mixed with Indian influences or Gershwin, but now they have gone back to basics.
- Greatness is to them inseparably connected with crowdedness, and what they call sophistication is at bottom nothing but a wallowing in that herd instinct which takes the place of mankind's ancient antagonist in Hamsun's books.
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