[だて(P);ダテ, date (P); date] (n, adj-na) (1) elegance; dandyism; sophistication; having style; (2) affectation; showing off; putting on an air; appearances; just for show; (P) #3,816[Add to Longdo]
[ひとずれ, hitozure] (n, adj-no) (1) sophistication; wordly wisdom; (vs) (2) to lose one's innocence; to get sophisticated; to get to know the world by being in contact with people; to lose one's naivete [Add to Longdo]
[ひねり, hineri] (n) (1) twist; spin; (2) ingenuity; sophistication (e.g. of writing style); (3) (See お捻り・おひねり) wrapped offering (of money); (4) twisting throw (sumo) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio,
F. sophistication.]
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sophistication
n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification},
{sophistication}]
2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism},
{sophistry}, {sophistication}]
3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable
mathematical sophistication"
4: the quality or character of being intellectually
sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience
or disillusionment [syn: {sophistication}, {worldliness},
{mundaneness}, {mundanity}] [ant: {naiveness}, {naivete},
{naivety}]
5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of
specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication
upon reason"
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