sophistication

English

Etymology

sophisticate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)

1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification or contamination.
5. Complexity.
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

   the sophistication of drugs

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Antonyms

• (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism

Derived terms

• oversophistication

Translations

enlightenment or education

• Polish: zaawansowanie n
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• Scottish Gaelic: ionnsachadh m (education)

cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire

• German: Kultiviertheit f
• Latin: urbānitās f
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• Polish: obycie n, wyrobienie n

deceptive logic; sophistry

• German: Raffinesse (de) f
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• Hungarian: álokoskodás (hu), hamis érvelés

falsification or contamination

• Hungarian: meghamisítás, elferdítés (hu)
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complexity

• German: Raffinesse (de) f, Komplexheit f, Ausgereiftheit m, Sophistikation f, Hochentwicklung f
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• Polish: finezja (pl) f, wyrafinowanie (pl) n

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) French: sophistication f
• (deprecated template usage) German: Kultiviertheit f, Raffinesse f, Verfeinerung f
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} sophistication, ^{(please verify)} mundanitate, ^{(please verify)} saper viver
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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} sofisticazione (it)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} sofisticación

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.fis.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

sophistication f (plural sophistications)

1. sophistication