English to English
noun
- uplifting enlightenment
source: WordNet 3.0
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
source: WordNet 3.0
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
source: WordNet 3.0
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason.
source: WordNet 3.0
- The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
source: Webster 1913
