1
[ noun ] uplifting enlightenment

Synonyms

edification

Used in print

(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

Have you examined this problem of increasing consumer sophistication from the standpoint of your own company ?

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

However , a growing intellectual sophistication and the new certitudes imparted by courses in psychology and anthropology make the students increasingly critical of their somewhat provincial and overprotective parents .

2
[ noun ] being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

Examples

"understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

Related terms

expertness sophisticate

3
[ noun ] falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

Examples

"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"

Related terms

falsification twist

4
[ noun ] a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Related terms

fallacy twist

5
[ noun ] the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

Synonyms

worldliness

Related terms

naivete quality sophisticate

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