sophistication
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion and Medieval Latin sophisticātio, -iōnis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)
- Enlightenment or education.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Falsification or contamination.
- Complexity.
- The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
- the sophistication of drugs
- 1663-1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy:
- how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "cultivated intellectual worldliness"): provincialism
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Translations edit
enlightenment or education
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cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
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deceptive logic; sophistry
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falsification or contamination
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complexity
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sophistication f (plural sophistications)
Further reading edit
- “sophistication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.