Dictionary Definition
sophistication
Noun
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Antonyms
- (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism
Translations
enlightenment or education
cultivated intellectual worldliness;
savoir-faire
falsification or contamination
- Hungarian: meghamisítás, elferdítés
complexity
- ttbc French: sophistication
- ttbc German: Kultiviertheit , Raffinesse , Verfeinerung
- ttbc Interlingua: sophistication, mundanitate, saper viver
- ttbc Italian: sofisticazione
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: ionnsachadh
- ttbc Spanish: sofisticación
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplishments,
acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent
soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized
taste, civilizedness, complexity, cosmopolitanism,
cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, disingenuousness,
distortion, edification, education, elegance, enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive
reasoning, excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness, finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy, jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability,
learning, liberal
education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past
experience, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise, polish, practical knowledge,
practice, quality, rationalization,
refinement, sagacity, savoir faire,
seasoning, sophism, sophistical reasoning,
sophistry, special
pleading, speciosity,
specious reasoning, speciousness, store of
knowledge, style, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility, undeceivability,
ungullibility,
unhoaxability,
unseduceability,
urbanity, vicious
circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness, worldly
wisdom