sophistication Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun uplifting enlightenment
   edification.
   
2. noun a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
   sophistry; sophism.
   
3. noun being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
   
   • understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
4. noun the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
   mundaneness; worldliness; mundanity.
   
5. noun falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
   
   • he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason

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