English Explanatory Dictionary

sophistication

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sophistication.wav

Word forms

sophistication sophistications

Etymology

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.

Synonyms

pollution adulteration contamination defedation defilement sophistication

Antonyms

provincialism

Derived words

oversophistication ultrasophistication unsophistication
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