Synonyms for sophistication
səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃənso·phis·ti·ca·tion

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1. sophisticationnoun

   Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

   Antonyms:
   provincialism

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1. edification, sophisticationnoun

   uplifting enlightenment

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, mundaneness, sophistry, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

2. sophism, sophistry, sophisticationnoun

   a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naiveness, naivety, naivete

3. sophisticationnoun

   being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

   "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

4. sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanitynoun

   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, mundanity, mundaneness, sophism, ordinariness, edification, sophistry

   Antonyms:
   naivety, naiveness, naivete

5. sophisticationnoun

   falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

   "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"

   Synonyms:
   worldliness, edification, sophistry, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism

   Antonyms:
   naivete, naiveness, naivety

Matched Categories

1. • Enlightenment
   • Expertness
   • Falsification

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1. sophisticationnoun

   Synonyms:
   adulteration, corruption

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1. List of paraphrases for "sophistication":

   complexity, refinement, subtlety

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1. Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel:

   There is no military solution to this. We are up against an ideology, we are up against a reality, a set of dynamics we've never seen before -- sophistication of social media, the military prowess, the tactical strategic prowess that ISIS possesses, the funding.

2. Barack Obama:

   Because if they do, there's incredible talent and resources and sophistication inside of Iran and it would be a very successful regional power that was also abiding by international norms and international rules - and that would be good for everybody.

3. Shlomo Kramer:

   Today, it's nation state attacks on critical infrastructure and organized crime attacks on financial assets. This requires much more sophistication.

4. American Indian:

   I'm watching the news, and I'm really impressed with the passion and sophistication of tribal health care and the ways that communities are able to know how in their community to get that vaccine out.

5. Mike Stratton:

   As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.