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civilization
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Synonyms and Antonyms of CIVILIZATION
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a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts <by the 18th century Boston had reached a level of civilization sufficiently advanced to support a circle of portrait painters>
Related Words education, erudition, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learning, literacy, scholarship; cosmopolitanism, sophistication, urbanity; breeding, genteelness, gentility, manners; class, elegance, grace, taste; civility, courteousness, courtesy, politeness
Near Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy; parochialism, provincialism, rusticity, unsophistication; boorishness, churlishness, clownishness, coarseness, crudeness, vulgarity
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