Synonym: culture. Antonym: barbarism. Similar words: utilization, stabilization, nationalization, civilize, realization, socialization, globalization, specialization. Meaning: [‚sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃn] n. 1. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) 2. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization 3. a particular society at a particular time and place 4. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.
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61. His philosophy is that we were seeded by an ancient civilization.
62. What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
63. When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks, they built war-trains, undermining engines,(sentencedict.com) mole bombs.
64. In one sense, he seems to argue that cinema has failed civilization.
65. To see them clearly one has to withdraw, mentally at least, from the civilization of which one is a part.
66. The blight of western civilization has been to divorce our thought from our emotions.
67. Through this astounding revolution, she rediscovered her original pride and her dignity as a great civilization.
68. Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down.
69. Much of the hostility towards civilization felt by people in the suppressed classes is understandable.
70. Only one desert civilization, out of dozens that grew up in antiquity, has survived uninterrupted into modern times.
71. It is quite another to attribute a sense of mechanical consciousness to ancient pre-industrial civilization.
72. On the outcome of the race between man and power depends the future of modern civilization.
73. Comte suggested that a society's political institutions provide an indication of the stage which has been attained by civilization.
74. Only after the last ice age did modern civilization, such as it is[sentencedict.com], evolve.
75. Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
76. Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
77. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
78. Truman, Harriman, and others viewed the United States as the chief defender of Western civilization.
79. For Leese, the Nordic or Aryan was the sole creator of culture and civilization.
80. Such a state tends to be rare in contemporary western civilization.
81. Sanders is merely the athlete who best defines the decline of Western civilization.
82. It may have wiped out the Minoan civilization in Crete.
83. Our modern civilization has convinced itself that the morality and conventions of civilization are somehow basic reality.
84. In this it closely resembles that of civilization, with which it is so often linked.
85. A civilization generally refuses to accept a cultural innovation that calls in question one of its own structural elements.
86. All told, the cradle of civilization has been tearing asunder for some 30 million years.
87. Its traditional civilization, which already embodied many different beliefs and attitudes, acquired new religious elements from outside.
88. Historically, they are rooted in the values of Western civilization.
89. This being so, civilization in the singular has lost some of its cachet.
90. Education is the heart of human civilization, and the source of human creativity, power and greatness. Dr T.P.Chia
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