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sophistication

Syllables: so·phis·ti·ca·tion/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

sophistication noun: enlightenment or education.

Noun

sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)

  1. Enlightenment or education.
  2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
  3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
  4. Falsification, contamination.
  5. 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. Ability to deal with complexity.
  7. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
    • the sophistication of drugs
    • how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful1663-1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy

sophistication meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

sophistication in Hindi

sophistication, purification
परिष्करण pariṣkaraṇ

sophistication in Tamil

பண்பு

sophistication in Urdu

نفاست, نفاستیت

sophistication in Bengali

মার্জিত ভাব, জটিলতা, আভিজাত্য
More languagesFewer languages
sophistication in Malayalam
പരിഷ്കൃതം pariṣkr̥taṁ
sophistication in Gujarati
અભિજાત્યપણુ, અભિજાત્યપણું

Examples of sophistication in a sentence

  • The author’s novels from her salad years lacked the sophistication and depth of her later works.
  • When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.
  • The identity dovetails with images of environmental purity, artisanality, adaptability, competitiveness, creativity, and sophistication.

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Synonyms of sophistication

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of sophistication

Forms of sophistication

pluralsophistications

Origin of sophistication

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

Words formed from sophistication

Questions about sophistication

What does sophistication mean?
Sophistication means enlightenment or education.
What is sophistication in Hindi?
Sophistication in Hindi is परिष्करण (pariṣkaraṇ). See Sophistication meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sophistication?
Sophistication is a noun.
How do you pronounce sophistication?
Sophistication is pronounced /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of sophistication?
The plural of sophistication is sophistications.

Words near sophistication in the dictionary

  1. sophisticated falsificationism
  2. sophisticatedly
  3. sophisticatedness
  4. sophisticates
  5. sophisticating
  6. sophistication
  7. sophistications
  8. sophisticative
  9. sophisticator
  10. sophisticators
  11. sophisticism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sophistication (page history and authors); परिष्करण (Hindi) (page history and authors); sophistication (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sophistication (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sophistication (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പരിഷ്കൃതം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); sophistication (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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