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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

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