Refinement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material High-class style; cultivation. A fine or subtle distinction.
Example sentence: Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Civilization
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.Human society, particularly civil society.The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.The state or quality of being civilized.The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
Example sentence: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.