Synonyms of the word

refinement

• n. The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material.
• n. High-class style; cultivation.
• n. A fine or subtle distinction.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

betterment

• n. An improvement.
• n. (law) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.

civilisation

• n. Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of civilization.

civilization

• n. An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage…
• n. (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
• n. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
• n. The state or quality of being civilized.
• n. (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
• p.n. Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high…

cultivation

• n. The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture.
• n. The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture.
• n. Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something).
• n. Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition.

culture

• n. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
• n. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
• n. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium;…
• n. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human…
• n. The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
• n. (botany) Cultivation.
• n. (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
• n. (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such…
• v. (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
• v. (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).

elaboration

• n. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• n. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables,…
• n. (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values…
• n. (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language…

excellence

• n. The quality of being excellent; brilliance.
• n. Something in which one excels.
• n. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

finish

• n. An end; the end of anything.
• n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
• n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
• v. (transitive) To complete (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
• v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

flawlessness

• n. The quality of being flawless.

import

• n. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
• n. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
• n. (uncountable) Significance, importance.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
• v. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
• v. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
• v. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
• v. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
• v. (transitive) To mean, signify.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

improvement

• n. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
• n. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed;…
• n. The state of being improved; betterment; advance.
• n. Something which is improved.
• n. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
• n. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc…
• n. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

meaning

• n. The symbolic value of something.
• n. The significance of a thing.
• n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
• n. (obsolete) Intention.
• v. present participle of mean.
• adj. Having a (specified) intention.
• adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

nicety

• n. A small detail or distinction.
• n. Subtlety or precision of use.

nuance

• n. A minor distinction.
• n. Subtlety or fine detail.
• v. (transitive) To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.

perfection

• n. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable…
• n. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To perfect.

polish

• n. A substance used to polish.
• n. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
• n. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
• v. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
• v. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
• v. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
• v. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
• v. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

processing

• n. The action of the verb to process.
• n. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
• n. The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer…
• v. present participle of process.

purification

• n. The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
• n. A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.

refining

• v. present participle of refine.
• n. Refinement (process of refining).

shade

• n. (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
• n. (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
• n. (countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
• n. (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
• n. (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
• n. A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning.
• n. (archaic or literary) A ghost.
• n. (archaic) A creature that is partially human and partially angel.
• n. (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and…
• n. (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.
• v. (transitive) To shield from light.
• v. (transitive) To alter slightly.
• v. (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
• v. (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
• v. (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
• v. To surpass by a narrow margin.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

significance

• n. The extent to which something matters; importance.
• n. Meaning.

signification

• n. The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
• n. Evidence for the existence of something.
• n. A meaning of a word.

subtlety

• n. (uncountable) The quality or fact of being subtle.
• n. (countable) An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
• n. (countable) An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing…