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Sophistication vs Finesse - What's the difference?

sophistication | finesse |

As nouns the difference between sophistication and finesse

is that sophistication is enlightenment or education while finesse is finesse.

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

    finesse

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of having grace, elegance, skill, or balance.
  • (uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.
  • (countable) An adroit maneuver.
  • (countable, bridge) A technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponent.
  • Verb

    (finess)
  • (ambitransitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse (see noun sense above).
  • To handle or manage carefully or skillfully.
  • To evade.