Sophistication

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio,
     F. sophistication.]
     The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
     sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sophistication
       n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification}]
       2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
          reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {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 through cultivation or experience or
          disillusionment [syn: {worldliness}] [ant: {naivete}]
       5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means
          of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of
          sophistication upon reason"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophistication":
     accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge,
     acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence,
     attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry,
     choiceness, circularity, civilized taste, civilizedness,
     complexity, cosmopolitanism, cultivated taste, cultivation,
     culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination,
     disingenuousness, distortion, edification, education, elegance,
     enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning,
     excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness,
     finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity,
     graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy,
     jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability, learning,
     liberal education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety,
     obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past experience,
     perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise,
     polish, practical knowledge, practice, quality, rationalization,
     refinement, sagacity, savoir faire, seasoning, sophism,
     sophistical reasoning, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity,
     specious reasoning, speciousness, store of knowledge, style,
     subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility,
     undeceivability, ungullibility, unhoaxability, unseduceability,
     urbanity, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness,
     worldly wisdom