RURALNESS Antonyms

• a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

• the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

• a particular society at a particular time and place

• the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

• growing or occurring in many parts of the world

• composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

• a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

• of worldwide scope or applicability

• relating to or characteristic of a metropolis

• in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity

• a person who lives in a metropolis

• the quality of being current or of the present

• uplifting enlightenment

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

• relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs

• polished courtesy; elegance of manner

• the quality or character of life in a city or town