Luxury vs Sophistication - What's the difference?
luxury | sophistication |
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
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.
As nouns the difference between luxury and sophistication
is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while sophistication is enlightenment or education.As an adjective luxury
is very expensive.luxury
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(wikipedia luxury)Noun
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Noun
- the sophistication of drugs
- (Boyle)