sophistication

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, SAMPA: /s@%fIs.tI"keI.S@n/

Noun

sophistication (uncountable)

1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification or contamination.
5. Complexity

Antonyms

• (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism

Translations

enlightenment or education

Polish: zaawansowanie (pl) n.

cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire

Polish: obycie (pl) n., wyrobienie (pl) n.

deceptive logic; sophistry

Hungarian: álokoskodás (hu), hamis érvelés

falsification or contamination

Hungarian: meghamisítás (hu), elferdítés (hu)

complexity

Polish: finezja (pl) f., wyrafinowanie (pl) n.

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French: sophistication f. German: Kultiviertheit f., Raffinesse f., Verfeinerung f. Interlingua: sophistication, mundanitate, saper viver Italian: sofisticazione

Scottish Gaelic: ionnsachadh m. Spanish: sofisticación