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View synonyms for sophistication
sophistication
[ suh-fis-ti-key-shuhn ]
noun
- sophisticated sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.:
the sophistication of the wealthy.
- change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition.
- complexity, as in design or organization.
- impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness.
- the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument.
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Other Words From
- anti·so·phisti·cation noun
- hyper·so·phisti·cation noun
- over·so·phisti·cation noun
- self-so·phisti·cation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sophistication1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōn-, stem of sophisticātiō; equivalent to sophisticate + -ion
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