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Sophistication   /səfˌɪstəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Sophistication

noun
1.
Uplifting enlightenment.  Synonym: edification.
2.
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.  Synonyms: sophism, sophistry.
3.
Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject.
4.
The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.  Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness.
5.
Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies.





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"Sophistication" Quotes from Famous Books



... in motive, sophistication, and strength, terrorist organizations share a basic structure ...
— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - February 2003 • United States
... exclaimed Washington as he walked along the street leading from the depot, a valise in either hand. "His state ob health am equal to de sophistication ob de soporiferousness." ...
— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood
... was the outcome of his conception of art, such as the Greek of the early schools conceived it, the expression of humanity in a simple and therefore noble state, and of the honest, open, healthy nature of the man himself, averse to all sophistication of society, reverent of an ideal in art, and intolerant of affectations. He conceived and executed his pictures in the pure Greek spirit, working out his ideal as his imagination presented it to him, not as the ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James
... that prevailed at York Fort was, that "soft" (in other words, straightforward, unsuspecting) youths had to undergo a long process of learning-by- experience: first, believing everything, and then doubting everything, ere they arrived at that degree of sophistication which enabled them to ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... protested, simple-heartedly. Then he recollected his sophistication to say: "Unless its being of that particular shade between brown ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells


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