'Sophistication' definitions:
Definition of 'sophistication'
(from WordNet)
noun
Uplifting enlightenment [syn: edification, sophistication]
noun
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism, sophistry, sophistication]
noun
Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
noun
The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity] [ant: naiveness, naivete, naivety]
noun
Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
Definition of 'Sophistication'
From: GCIDE
- Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.] The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sophistication'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishments,
- acquired taste,
- acquisition of knowledge,
- acquisitions,
- apparent soundness,
- appreciation of excellence,
- attainments,
- awareness,
- background,
- blaseness,
- casuistry,
- choiceness,
- circularity,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- complexity,
- cosmopolitanism,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- daintiness,
- delicacy,
- discernment,
- discrimination,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- edification,
- education,
- elegance,
- enlightenment,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- excellence,
- experience,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fastidiousness,
- finesse,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- illumination,
- insincerity,
- instruction,
- intricacy,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- knowledge,
- knowledgeability,
- learning,
- liberal education,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- past experience,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- poise,
- polish,
- practical knowledge,
- practice,
- quality,
- rationalization,
- refinement,
- sagacity,
- savoir faire,
- seasoning,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- store of knowledge,
- style,
- subtlety,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- tempering,
- uncullibility,
- undeceivability,
- ungullibility,
- unhoaxability,
- unseduceability,
- urbanity,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- worldliness,
- worldly wisdom