| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication, education |
Synonyms: |
advancement, aestheticism, breeding, civility, civilization, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, gentility, good taste, grounding, improvement, learning, letters, manners, polish, progress, refined taste, refinement, schooling, taste |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, unsophistication |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishment, address, aestheticism, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, good taste, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, propriety |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, good taste, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | tastefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good taste |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, taste |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
-phrases
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
vulgarity |
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