Meaning & Definition of Sophistication in English
English⟶
Sophistication
/səfɪstəkeʃən/
noun
1. Uplifting enlightenment
synonym:
- edification,
- sophistication
2. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
synonym:
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- sophistication
3. Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- "Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
synonym:
- sophistication
4. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
synonym:
- sophistication,
- worldliness,
- mundaneness,
- mundanity
5. Falsification by the use of sophistry
- Misleading by means of specious fallacies
- "He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
synonym:
- sophistication
Examples of using
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.