sophistication : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sophistication	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sophistication
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sophistication n uplifting enlightenment [syn: edification, sophistication] a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone Synonym(s): sophism, sophistry, sophistication being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication" the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment Synonym(s): sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity Antonym(s): naiveness, naivete, naivety falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sophistication \Sophis`tica"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.] The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.