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Sophistication

//səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Enlightenment or education. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies wordnet
  3. 3
    Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment wordnet
  5. 5
    Deceptive logic; sophistry. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject wordnet
  2. 7
    Falsification, contamination. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone wordnet
  4. 9
    Complexity. countable, uncountable

    "The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network."

  5. 10
    uplifting enlightenment wordnet
  6. 11
    Ability to deal with complexity. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    The act of sophisticating; adulteration. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "the sophistication of drugs"

Etymology

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.

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