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Noun: sophistication su`fistu'keyshun- Uplifting enlightenment
- edification - A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- sophism, sophistry - 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
- worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity - Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
"he practised the art of sophistication upon reason"
Derived forms: sophistications See also: sophisticate Type of: enlightenment, expertise, expertness, fallacy, false belief, falsehood, falsification, quality Antonym: naiveté |