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Synonyms for civilization

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Synonyms for civilization

the total product of human creativity and intellect

enlightenment and excellent taste resulting from intellectual development

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Synonyms for civilization

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

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the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

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Then there's the ever-smiling, Wall Street Journal-parroting Harvard conservative Steven Pinker, blaming rock 'n' roll music and drugs (he leaves out birth control, i.e., sex, the Journal's third leg of liberal licentiousness, but dutifully includes g*dless communism) as influential instigators of violence and "decivilization in the 1960s" in his Better Angels of Our Nature.
Similar points can be made about global capitalism as it emerges in Nostromo (or "Heart of Darkness") or the intercultural exchange that Conrad defended against the charge of "decivilization" in the "Preface" to Almayer's Folly.
(40) It was a process of civilizing Mexico while tolerating decivilization--decivilizing situations--civilization and decivilization.