sophistication

Meanings

Plural: sophistications

Noun

• uplifting enlightenment
• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
  • "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
  • "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
• Enlightenment or education.
• Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
• Deceptive logic; sophistry.
• Falsification or contamination.
• Complexity.
• Ability to deal with complexity.
• The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

Synonyms

edification, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism, sophistry, worldliness

Antonyms

naivete, provincialism