| sophistication [n] |
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| 1) | uplifting enlightenment |
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| Synonyms : | edification |
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| enlightenment edify disenchantment |
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| 2) | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone |
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| Synonyms : | sophism sophistry |
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| fallacy convolute |
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| 3) | being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication" |
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| expertise sophisticate |
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| 4) | the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment |
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| Synonyms : | worldliness |
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| quality sophisticate naiveness |
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| 5) | falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" |
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| falsehood convolute |
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