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sophistication

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Main Entry: sophistication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: culture, style

Synonyms:

composure, elegance, finesse, poise, refinement, savoir faire, savoir vivre, social grace, tact, urbanity, worldliness, worldly wisdom

Antonyms:

ingenuousness, naiveté, simplicity
Main Entry: elegance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cultivated beauty, taste

Synonyms:

breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness

Antonyms:

crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness
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: experience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: knowledge

Synonyms:

acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness

Antonyms:

ignorance, immaturity, inexperience
Main Entry: finesse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: know-how, maneuver

Synonyms:

acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile

Antonyms:

ignorance
Main Entry: judgment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: common sense

Synonyms:

acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, brains, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, incisiveness, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, rationality, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit
Notes: judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling

Antonyms:

ignorance, inanity, misjudgment, stupidity
Main Entry: manners
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: polite, refined social behavior

Synonyms:

amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity
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: refinement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cultivation, civilization

Synonyms:

affability, civility, courtesy, courtliness, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, elegance, enlightenment, erudition, fastidiousness, fine point, fine tuning, fineness, finesse, finish, gentility, gentleness, good breeding, good manners, grace, graciousness, knowledge, lore, nicety, nuance, polish, politeness, politesse, precision, sophistication, style, suavity, subtlety, tact, taste, urbanity

Antonyms:

bad manners, crudeness, rudeness
Main Entry: style
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fashionableness

Synonyms:

chichi*, comfort, cosmopolitanism, craze, dash, delicacy, dernier cri, dressiness, ease, elegance, fad, flair, grace, grandeur, luxury, mode, panache, polish, rage, refinement, savoir-faire, smartness, sophistication, stylishness, taste, thing*, urbanity, vogue, élan

Antonyms:

unstylishness
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