sophistication
(noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; “he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”
sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity
(noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
sophistication
(noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; “understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication”
sophism, sophistry, sophistication
(noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
edification, sophistication
(noun) uplifting enlightenment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)
Enlightenment or education.
Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
Falsification or contamination.
Complexity.
Ability to deal with complexity.
(archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
• (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism
Source: Wiktionary
So*phis`ti*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.]
Definition: The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 May 2025
(adjective) excessively unwilling to spend; “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence”
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