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English noun: sophistication | |||
| 1. | sophistication (cognition) uplifting enlightenment | ||
| Synonyms | edification | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enlightenment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment | ||
| 2. | sophistication (cognition) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | ||
| Synonyms | sophism, sophistry | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fallacy, false belief | ||
| 3. | sophistication (cognition) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | ||
| Samples | Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expertise, expertness | ||
| 4. | sophistication (attribute) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | ||
| Synonyms | mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Antonyms | naiveness, naivete, naivety | ||
| 5. | sophistication (act) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | ||
| Samples | He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | falsehood, falsification | ||
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