sophistication

Nouns

  • (n) uplifting enlightenment edification,
  • (n) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone sophism, sophistry,
  • (n) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
    • understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
  • (n) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness,
  • (n) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
    • he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason

Synonyms

edification sophism sophistry mundaneness mundanity worldliness

Antonyms

naiveness naivete naivety

Words of close approximity