Noun: sophistication su,fi-stu'key-shun
- Refinement in taste, style or manners
"The restaurant exudes sophistication in its decor and service"
- Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
- Intellectual, cultural, or moral improvement
"Travel contributed to his sophistication";
- edification
- A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
"The debater's clever sophistication initially confused his opponents";
- sophism, sophistry
- Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
"he practised the art of sophistication upon reason"
Derived forms: sophistications
Type of: enlightenment, expertise, expertness, fallacy, false belief, falsehood, falsification
Encyclopedia: Sophistication