sophistication

noun

1. uplifting enlightenment

Similar word(s): edification

Definition categories: thought, enlightenment

2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Similar word(s): sophism, sophistry

Definition categories: thought, fallacy

3. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

- understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication

Definition categories: thought, expertise, expertness

4. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

Similar word(s): mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness

Definition categories: attribute, quality

5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

- he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason

Definition categories: act, falsehood, falsification