Sophistication vs. Elegance

Sophistication vs. Elegance — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Sophistication and Elegance

Sophisticationnoun

Enlightenment or education.

Elegancenoun

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

The bride was elegance personified.

Sophisticationnoun

Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

Elegancenoun

Restraint and grace of style.

The simple dress had a quiet elegance.

Sophisticationnoun

Deceptive logic; sophistry.

Elegancenoun

The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
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Sophisticationnoun

Falsification or contamination.

Elegancenoun

A refinement or luxury.

Sophisticationnoun

Complexity.

Elegancenoun

a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

Sophisticationnoun

Ability to deal with complexity.

Sophisticationnoun

(archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

the sophistication of drugs
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Sophisticationnoun

uplifting enlightenment

Sophisticationnoun

a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Sophisticationnoun

being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;

understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication

Sophisticationnoun

the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

Sophisticationnoun

falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies;

he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason