sophistication

/səfˌɪstəkˈeɪʃən/ · 5 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. uplifting enlightenment
2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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
5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
   “he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”

Synonyms for sophistication

• edification
• sophism
• sophistry
• worldliness
• mundaneness
• mundanity

Antonyms of sophistication

• naivete

Words that rhyme with sophistication

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• assimilation