English dictionary

sophistication

/s/@/,f/I/st/@/'k/eI//S//@/n/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

uplifting enlightenment

noun.cognition

Synonyms edification

Source: WordNet 3.0
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

noun.cognition

Synonyms sophism sophistry

Source: WordNet 3.0
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

noun.cognition

Examples
Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication.

Source: WordNet 3.0
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

noun.attribute

Synonyms mundaneness mundanity worldliness

Antonyms naiveness naivete naivety

Source: WordNet 3.0
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

noun.act

Examples
He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason.

Source: WordNet 3.0
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the <i>sophistication</i> of drugs.

noun

Source: webster1913