sophistication

complexité, sophistication

Degré de développement d’une chose comportant de nombreuses parties élaborées ou utilisant des méthodes avancées.

En anglais simple : The degree to which something has many carefully developed parts or uses advanced methods.

• The system’s sophistication surprised us.
• These attacks show increasing technical sophistication.
• We underestimated the sophistication of the criminal network.

Synonymes : complexity

Contraires : simplicity

Expressions courantes : technical sophistication, growing sophistication, sophistication of something

sophisme

Raisonnement qui paraît habile mais utilise des arguments trompeurs.

En anglais simple : Reasoning that seems clever but uses misleading arguments.

• His speech relied on sophistication.
• She challenged the sophistication in his argument.
• The writer used sophistication to make a false claim seem reasonable.

Synonymes : sophistry

Expressions courantes : logical sophistication, sophistication of arguments