Sophistication vs. Elegance: What's the Difference?
Sophistication and Elegance Definitions
Sophistication
To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly
Travel tends to sophisticate a person.
Elegance
Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
Sophistication
To make more complex or refined
Sophisticated the theory to take criticism into account.
Elegance
Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.
Sophistication
To mislead or corrupt (a person).
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Elegance
Restraint and grace of style.
Sophistication
To make impure; adulterate.
Elegance
Scientific exactness and precision.
Sophistication
To use sophistry.
Elegance
Something elegant.
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Sophistication
A sophisticated person.
Elegance
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
The bride was elegance personified.
Sophistication
Enlightenment or education.
Elegance
Restraint and grace of style.
The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
Sophistication
Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
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Elegance
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
Sophistication
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
Elegance
A refinement or luxury.
Sophistication
Falsification or contamination.
Elegance
The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; - said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.
That grace that elegance affords.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers.
Sophistication
Complexity.
The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
Elegance
That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art.
Sophistication
Ability to deal with complexity.
Elegance
A refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
Sophistication
(archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
The sophistication of drugs
Sophistication
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
Sophistication
Uplifting enlightenment
Sophistication
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Sophistication
Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
Sophistication
The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Sophistication
Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies;
He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
