cultures

NOUN

breeding, education, sophistication

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ability art civilization experience fashion perception practice science skill

STRONG

accomplishment address capacity class courtesy cultivation delicacy dignity discrimination dress elegance elevation enlightenment erudition finish gentility grace improvement kindness learning manners nobility polish politeness proficiency refinement savoir-faire tact training urbanity

WEAK

aestheticism good taste

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance inability inexperience

STRONG

bad manners clumsiness coarseness crudeness harm hurt impoliteness incompetence inelegance ineptness roughness rudeness tactlessness

NOUN

ideas, values of a people

Synonyms

STRONGEST

civilization development folklore habit knowledge lifestyle society way of life

STRONG

convention customs ethnology grounding humanism mores

WEAK

arts and sciences folkways the arts

NOUN

development of land

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agriculture

STRONG

agrology agronomy cultivation farming gardening raising tending

WEAK

agronomics

Example Sentences

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Most of the eponymous 100 have rippling musculatures, but a few are downright puny.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2023

Athleticism became something he was later to champion in dance: Many of his male dancers had powerful musculatures, while many of his female dancers displayed lissomeness, force and boldness.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018

There was a Sistine Chapel esthetic here, in the fleshiness, the impressive musculatures and the dancers’ magical floating quality, all enhanced by Neil Peter Jampolis’s golden lighting.

From Washington Post