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noun
1.
sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.
2.
change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition.
3.
complexity, as in design or organization.
4.
impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness.
5.
the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin sophisticātiōn- (stem of sophisticātiō), equivalent to sophisticāt(us) (see sophisticate) + -iōn- -ion
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin sophisticātiōn- (stem of sophisticātiō), equivalent to sophisticāt(us) (see sophisticate) + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
an·ti·so·phis·ti·ca·tion, noun
hy·per·so·phis·ti·ca·tion, noun
o·ver·so·phis·ti·ca·tion, noun
self-so·phis·ti·ca·tion, noun
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Sophistication
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Example Sentences
- But that sophistication can be loaded onto the satellite, where it does not contribute to the weight of a tag.
- The sophistication of what's goes on in photographic manipulation, really the two go hand in hand.
- The is an underlying romanticism juxtaposed with unpolished sophistication that cannot be replicated even if one tried.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| sophisticate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to make (someone) less natural or innocent, as by education |
| 2. | to pervert or corrupt (an argument, etc) by sophistry |
| 3. | (tr) to make more complex or refined |
| 4. | rare to falsify (a text, etc) by alterations |
| —n | |
| 5. | a sophisticated person |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, from Latin sophisticus sophistic] | |
| sophisti'cation | |
| —n | |
| so'phisticator | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
sophistication
c.1400, "use or employment of sophistry," from M.L. sophisticationem (nom. sophisticatio), from sophisticare "adulterate, cheat quibble," from L. sophisticus "of sophists," from Gk. sophistikos "of or pertaining to a sophist," from sophistes "a wise man, master, teacher" (see
EXPAND sophist). Meaning "wordly wisdom, refinement, discrimination" is attested from 1850.
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