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Sophistication vs Soignee - What's the difference?

sophistication | soignee |

As a noun sophistication

is enlightenment or education.

As an adjective soignee is

showing elegance and sophistication.

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

    soignee

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 2007 , Bee Wilson, ‘Pink and Bare’, London Review of Books 29:3 , page 24:
    • Proof of Life was not much of a film; and Ryan, implausibly soignée despite the fact that her character's husband has been kidnapped by South American drug fiends, is one of the worst things about it.
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