Definition of Sophistication

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Definition of Sophistication
	Sophistication The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Related Definitions: Act, Adulteration, As, Of, Sophisticating, Sophistication, The

Sophistication Quotations

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
Vera Wang

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
David Zucker

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
Bill Budge

Sophistication Translations

sophistication in German is Erfahrenheit

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