Found 2 items, similar to sophistication.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sophistication sophistication n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: edification] 2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism, sophistry] 3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; “understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication” 4: the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: worldliness] [ant: naivete] 5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; “he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sophistication Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.] The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]