sophistication
noun
sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc..
sophistications
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pluralof sophistication.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“It is as if she had returned from some noble-nonsense war movie of the 1940’s to suggest an area of human response that the masterly sophistications of ‘M.A.S.H.’ are unaware of.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
“It was so long that its sophistications were less visible,” she said, laughing, and added that she initially resisted suggested cuts.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2012
Another 400 years and the parfit gentil knights in the pious allegories of Alfred Lord Tennyson startlingly resembled iron-padded Victorian cricketers, later followed by Mark Twain's slapstick farce and the droll sophistications of John Erskine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trouble is that we have not yet attained several sophistications that are necessary for its successful operation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the beginning of the retreat of an ardent and gayly candid boy into the adult sophistications of Secrecy.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
