noun
1. uplifting enlightenment (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑edification
• Derivationally related forms: ↑edify (for: ↑edification)
• Hypernyms: ↑enlightenment
• Hyponyms: ↑disenchantment, ↑disillusion, ↑disillusionment
2. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
• Syn: ↑worldliness, ↑mundaneness, ↑mundanity
• Ant: ↑naivete
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mundane (for: ↑mundaneness), ↑worldly (for: ↑worldliness), ↑sophisticate
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
3. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
• Hypernyms: ↑fallacy, ↑false belief
4. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
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understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sophisticate
• Hypernyms: ↑expertness, ↑expertise
5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
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he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sophisticate
• Hypernyms: ↑falsification, ↑falsehood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.