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Complexity vs Sophistication - What's the difference?

complexity | sophistication |

As nouns the difference between complexity and sophistication

is that complexity is the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement while sophistication is enlightenment or education.

complexity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
  • (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

    • Synonyms

    * complicacy

    Antonyms

    * simplicity

    Derived terms

    * complexity theory * space complexity * time complexity * Kolmogorov complexity

    Related terms

    * complexus * complicate

    sophistication

    English

    Noun

  • Enlightenment or education.
  • Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
  • Deceptive logic; sophistry.
  • Falsification or contamination.
  • Complexity
  • Ability to deal with complexity
  • (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
    • the sophistication of drugs
    (Boyle)

    Antonyms

    * (cultivated intellectual worldliness) provincialism