sophistication

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) Enlightenment or education.
2. (countable, uncountable) Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. (countable, uncountable) Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. (countable, uncountable) Falsification or contamination.
5. (countable, uncountable) Complexity.
6. (countable, uncountable) Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

Concepts

sophistication

sophistique

complication

élégance

sophiste

Synonymes

worldliness

sophism

sophistry

edification

refinement

finesse

cultivation

mundanity

mundaneness

urbanity

elegance

civilization

cosmopolitanism

deformation

distortion

encyclopaedism

eruditeness

erudition

experience

falsification

gentility

learnedness

learning

logomachy

manner

mannerism

pedantry

perversion

pretentiousness

meaning

primness

prissiness

quibble

scholarship

straining

torture

twist

twisting

dandyism

overrefinement

priggery

having style

encyclopedism

complexification

ways of the world

priggishness

affectation

affectedness

camp

caption

Traductions

sofisticación

sofisticació

sofisticação

sofisticazione

Raffinesse

Erfahrenheit

Schläue

Weltlichkeit

Erbauung

Verfeinerung

Durchtriebenheit

Ausgereiftheit

Perfektion

Kompliziertwerden

Kultiviertheit

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sophisticacion

In summary

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion and its etymon Medieval Latin sophisticātiō, -iōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.