Sophistication - Definition
sophistication
n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: edification,
sophistication]
2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism,
sophistry, sophistication]
3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable
mathematical sophistication"
4: 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]
5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of
specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication
upon reason"