sophistication
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) Enlightenment or education.
- (countable, uncountable) Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- (countable, uncountable) Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- (countable, uncountable) Falsification or contamination.
- (countable, uncountable) Complexity.
- (countable, uncountable) Ability to deal with complexity.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
Synonyms
having style
Translations
sophistication
sofisticación
sofisticació
sofisticação
sofisticazione
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology
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.
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