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. 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.

2. Shlomo Kramer:

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

3. Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel:

   I always thought that we needed to more clearly define our political strategy along with our military strategy, 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.

4. James Scott:

   We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.

5. John Kirby:

   I would think the Trump administration could -- if they choose -- cite the principle of self-defense under the UN Charter and conduct operations accordingly, but those operations would have to be proportional to the threat -- a threat that has now been made more challenging by the sophistication of Iranian air defenses.