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Elegance vs Sophistication - What's the difference?

elegance | sophistication |

As nouns the difference between elegance and sophistication

is that elegance is grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners while sophistication is enlightenment or education.

elegance

English

(wikipedia elegance)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
    • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
    • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
    • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
    • , passage=Phineas Duge

    Related terms

    * elegant

    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