What is the meaning of sophistication?

noun

  • Uplifting enlightenment.
  • A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
  • Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject.
    • usage: "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
  • The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
  • Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies.
    • usage: "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
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