Synonyms for sophistication
səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃənso·phis·ti·ca·tion

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1. sophisticationnoun

   Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

   Antonyms:
   provincialism

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1. edification, sophisticationnoun

   uplifting enlightenment

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, mundaneness, sophistry, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

2. sophism, sophistry, sophisticationnoun

   a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naiveness, naivety, naivete

3. sophisticationnoun

   being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

   "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

4. sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanitynoun

   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, mundanity, mundaneness, sophism, ordinariness, edification, sophistry

   Antonyms:
   naivety, naiveness, naivete

5. sophisticationnoun

   falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

   "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

Matched Categories

1. • Enlightenment
   • Expertness
   • Falsification

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1. sophisticationnoun

   Synonyms:
   adulteration, corruption

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1. List of paraphrases for "sophistication":

   complexity, refinement, subtlety

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1. John Harrison:

   Most terrorist groups do not appear to have the technical sophistication to hack into systems the way some describe.

2. Wilfred Wong:

   China has clearly advanced from 10 years ago with the explosive growth of its market. Its films - special effects, blockbusters - have developed in line with increasing sophistication and demand in the entertainment sector.

3. Euan Graham:

   That’s the level of sophistication – it looks like a strike package, and that’s part of the step up in pressure, this is not a couple of fighters coming close and then going straight back after putting one wing across the median; this is a much more purposeful maneuver.

4. Shlomo Kramer:

   Today, it's nation state attacks on critical infrastructure and organized crime attacks on financial assets. This requires much more sophistication.

5. Andre Strauss:

   This ritualized decapitation attests to the early sophistication of mortuary rituals among hunter-gatherers in the Americas, geographically, it expands the known range of decapitation in more than 2,000 kilometers (about 1,240 miles), showing that during the early Holocene, this was not a phenomenon restricted to the western part of the continent as previously assumed.