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sophistication

DEFINITIONS OF: sophistication

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

Synonyms:
mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness
Antonyms:
naiveness, naivete, naivety
lack of sophistication or worldliness
Type of:
quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

n falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

“he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”
Type of:
falsehood, falsification
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

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

Synonyms:
sophism, sophistry
Type of:
fallacy, false belief
a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

n uplifting enlightenment

Synonyms:
edification
Types:
disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
freeing from false belief or illusions
Type of:
enlightenment
education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

n being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

“understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication”
Type of:
expertise, expertness
skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
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