"sophistication" in the noun sense
1. edification, sophistication
uplifting enlightenment
2. sophism, sophistry, sophistication
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
3. sophistication
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
4. sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
5. sophistication
falsification by the use of sophistry misleading by means of specious fallacies
"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
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