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sophistication

[ suh-fis-ti-key-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

sophisticated sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.:
the sophistication of the wealthy.
change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition.
complexity, as in design or organization.
impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness.
the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument.

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōn-, stem of sophisticātiō; equivalent to sophisticate + -ion

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

So, the display—which has the aesthetic sophistication of a middle school science project—will go up for week.

His dresses were worn by Hollywood stars and first ladies, emanating glamour and sophistication.

This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.

Anyone who thinks otherwise, to employ the emotional sophistication of “Shake It Off,” can suck it.

She chattered with the childish artlessness that at times veiled her sophistication.

Their being very much cheaper accounts for the sophistication.

Sophistication has often been resorted to in order ostensibly to improve damaged or cheap coffee.

It is the ideal of being natural, of being primitive, dismissing "refinements" and the tricks of literary sophistication.

Glahn and Edvarda are both essentially and deeply primitive though afflicted with a blight of sophistication.

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