| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
Antonyms: |
barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society |
Synonyms: |
civilized life, community, customs, literate society, modern humanity, mores, nation, people, polity, way of life |
| 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: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideas, values of a people |
Synonyms: |
arts and sciences, civilization, convention, customs, development, ethnology, folklore, folkways, grounding, habit, humanism, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, the arts, way of life |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
Synonyms: |
apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
Synonyms: |
bodhi, broad-mindedness, civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, open-mindedness, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, meliorism, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
Antonyms: |
damage, decline, decrease, diminishing, harm, hurt, injury, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
Synonyms: |
ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
Antonyms: |
childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humankind, people |
Synonyms: |
association, camaraderie, civilization, commonality, commonwealth, community, companionship, company, comradeship, culture, friendship, general public, humanity, jungle*, nation, population, public, rat race, social order, world, zoo |