Definition of Sophistication

1. Noun. Uplifting enlightenment.

Exact synonyms: Edification
Generic synonyms: Enlightenment
Specialized synonyms: Disenchantment, Disillusion, Disillusionment
Derivative terms: Edify

2. Noun. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
Exact synonyms: Sophism, Sophistry
Generic synonyms: Fallacy, False Belief
Derivative terms: Sophist, Sophistic, Sophisticate

3. Noun. Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject. "Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
Generic synonyms: Expertise, Expertness
Derivative terms: Sophisticate

4. Noun. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
Exact synonyms: Mundaneness, Mundanity, Worldliness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Mundane, Sophisticate, Worldly
Antonyms: Naivete

5. Noun. Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies. "He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
Generic synonyms: Falsehood, Falsification
Derivative terms: Sophisticate

Definition of Sophistication

1. n. The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.

Definition of Sophistication

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophistication

sophies
Sophie Tucker
sophism
sophism
sophisms
sophist
sophistic
sophistical
sophistically
sophisticate
sophisticate
sophisticated
sophisticatedly
sophisticates
sophisticating
sophistication (current term)
sophistications
sophistries
sophistry
sophists
Sophocles
sophomore
sophomore(a)
sophomores
sophomore class
sophomoric
Sophonias
sophora
Sophora
Sophora japonica

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