sophistication meaning and definition

SOPHISTICATION noun

Definition of sophistication (noun)

1. uplifting enlightenment
   • synonyms: edification
2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
   • synonyms: sophism, sophistry
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
   • synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness
   • antonym: naiveness
5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
   • "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"