sophistication
noun/səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn/
/səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn/
[uncountable]- experience of the world and knowledge of fashion, culture and other things that people think are socially important
- Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
- He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.
- She adopted an upper-class accent to give herself a veneer of sophistication.
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- the quality in a machine or system of being clever and complicated in the way that it works or is presented
- the increasing power and sophistication of computers
- Financial markets have grown in sophistication as well as size.
- the ability to understand difficult or complicated ideas
- He writes with increasing sophistication on the subject.
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