Dictionary

sophistication en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Enlightenment or education.
2. (countable, uncountable) Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. (countable, uncountable) Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. (countable, uncountable) Falsification, contamination.
5. (countable, uncountable) Complexity.
   • The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
   • Appetizers ($3.50-$7.95) show Mi Casa's edge in sophistication for a restaurant of its type. 1988 June 3, Lawrence Rand, “Restaurant Tours: 21 years in a Mexican standby”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2020:
6. (countable, uncountable) Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
   • how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful 1663-1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy:
   • the sophistication of drugs

Forms

Antonyms

provincialism (antonym(s) of “cultivated intellectual worldliness”)

Deriveds

oversophistication · ultrasophistication · unsophistication

Synonyms

pollution · contamination · sophistication · defedation · defilement · adulteration · pollution

Translations (49)

pl wyrobienie (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · bg изтънченост (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · pl zaawansowanie (enlightenment or education) · ru изощрённость (complexity) · es sofistiquez (deceptive logic; sophistry) · de Ausgereiftheit (complexity) · ca finesa (deceptive logic; sophistry) · hu hamis érvelés (deceptive logic; sophistry) · gd ionnsachadh (enlightenment or education) · de Sophistikation (complexity) · de Raffinesse (deceptive logic; sophistry) · hu elferdítés (falsification) · it complessità (complexity) · la urbānitās (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · pl finezja (complexity) · es sofisticación (enlightenment or education) · pl obycie (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · bg изисканост (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · de Kultiviertheit (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · bg софистика (deceptive logic; sophistry) · ru фальсифика́ция (falsification) · de Erfahrenheit (enlightenment or education) · de Beschlagenheit (enlightenment or education) · ca sofisticació (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · de Hochentwicklung (complexity) · de Raffinesse (complexity) · bg фалшификация (falsification) · de Ausgereiftheit (enlightenment or education) · ru сло́жность (complexity) · cmn 教養 /教养 (enlightenment or education) · ca sofisticació (enlightenment or education) · it finezza (complexity) · ru софи́стика (deceptive logic; sophistry) · hu álokoskodás (deceptive logic; sophistry) · de Raffinesse (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · it sofisticazione (enlightenment or education) · ru просвеще́ние (enlightenment or education) · de Komplexheit (complexity) · hu meghamisítás (falsification) · pt sofisticação (enlightenment or education) · pl wyrafinowanie (complexity) · ru утончённость (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · ca finesa (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · it raffinatezza (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · fr sophistication (enlightenment or education) · bg сложност (complexity) · bg подправяне (falsification) · ru искушённость (cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire) · ca sofisticació (deceptive logic; sophistry)