| 单词 | sophistication |
| 释义 | sophistication (once / 5513 pages) n Sophistication is the quality that belongs to a person who appears wise and glamorous. Sipping tea and appreciating opera are both stereotypical signs of sophistication. The noun sophistication can also be used in a slightly different way, to describe a deep understanding, or an almost enlightened state. Before the 1800s, sophistication meant "the use of sophistry," or using mistaken or deceitful arguments, although the root word for both sophistication and "sophistry" is the Greek sophistes, or "wise man." WORD FAMILYsophistication: sophistications+/sophisticate: sophisticated, sophisticates, sophisticating, sophistication/sophisticated: sophisticatedly, unsophisticated USAGE EXAMPLES“The level of sophistication is an order of magnitude greater” in Mosul than in some past conflicts, said Army Brig. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) It was a level of wit and sophistication one expects to find in a Middle School humor magazine. New York Times(Mar 27, 2013) Like earlier painters who were inspired by “primitive” art, Smith imbues simple motifs with sophistication. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1n the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment Syn|Ant|Hyper mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness naiveness, naivete, naivety lack of sophistication or worldliness quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason Hyper falsehood, falsification the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting 3n a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone Syn|Hyper sophism, sophistry fallacy, false belief a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning 4n uplifting enlightenment Syn|Hypo|Hyper edification disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment freeing from false belief or illusions enlightenment education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge 5n being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication Hyper expertise, expertness skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge |
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