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Sophistication vs Intricacy - What's the difference?

sophistication | intricacy |

As nouns the difference between sophistication and intricacy

is that sophistication is enlightenment or education while intricacy is the state or quality of being intricate or entangled;.

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

    intricacy

    English

    Noun

    (intricacies)
  • The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
  • Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
  • That which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

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