URBANITY Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

urbanity

noun

Definition of urbanity

as in cosmopolitanism

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Recent Examples of urbanity And with many of us wound up in concrete urbanity, the livestreams offer instant transportation to the wild. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026 Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion. — Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025 In Otsuki’s collection, elements of the Japanese salaryman mixed with the urbanity of Gere’s Julian Kay create a compelling blend of references that ultimately play to each designer’s strength. — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urbanity

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Noun

America’s relative openness to immigrants looked like decadence; cosmopolitanism and internationalism were objects of contempt.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Public shows of cosmopolitanism can only go so far, as Livraria Lello itself demonstrates.

— Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026

Definition of cosmopolitanism

Noun

Umiltà 36’s soignée sophistication equally permeates its public spaces, where a notable collection of contemporary artwork looms large.

— Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
The sophistication of model subterfuge that OpenAI has now disclosed, combined with OpenAI’s inability to detect or stop the hacking, suggests far worse could be to come.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of sophistication

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These critiques were amplified by Black content creators and the general social media audience, who took issue with the genre’s Eurocentric portrayal of knowledge and intellectualism.

— Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
Fans of trivia like to say that caring so deeply about these facts at a time of disinformation and anti-intellectualism is an act of defiance—that picking up trivia is a way to keep knowledge from being disappeared.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026

Definition of intellectualism

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The federal law generally prohibits schools that receive federal education funding from disclosing personally identifiable information from a student's education records without a parent's or guardian's consent, except in limited circumstances.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Democrats say the flip indicates voters want education to move on from political fights over social issues, while conservatives point to their wins.

— Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of education

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Longworth’s deep research, erudition, and spectacularly precise elocution have made the now-indie podcast essential storytelling for cinephiles.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 July 2026
The acclaimed author of The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf brings erudition and flair to Forster’s peripatetic career as teenaged crewman on Captain Cook’s global voyage.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

Definition of erudition

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Summary OpenAI disclosed a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training after an unreleased model called Astra could not be ruled out as reaching Critical, the highest cybersecurity risk tier in its Preparedness Framework.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
That Imai is the first Japanese player the Astros have signed from Nippon Professional Baseball meant an already massive learning curve would grow steeper.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of learning

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If the fake poll was truly a social experiment meant to test the poll literacy of media outlets and campaigns, Yeargain said, there would likely be nothing to prosecute.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Zapata is a high school teacher who said his priorities include improving literacy, expanding career and technical education, safety in schools and fiscal responsibility.

— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of literacy

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