Dictionary

1. (

• edification ,
• sophistication

) uplifting enlightenment ;

2. (

• sophism ,
• sophistry ,
• sophistication ,

) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone ;

3. (

• sophistication ,

) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication" ;

4. (

• sophistication ,
• worldliness ,
• mundaneness ,
• mundanity

) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment ;

5. (

• sophistication

) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" ;