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 500 years later, with Tennyson's pious allegories, Mark Twain's farce, John Erskine's sophistications, etc.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Munich: 396 icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tried a hundred sophistications of my treachery to him.
From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
