English

Noun

sophistication ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)

1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification or contamination.
5. Complexity.
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

   the sophistication of drugs

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Antonyms

• (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism

Derived terms

• oversophistication

Translations

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Pronunciation

Noun

sophistication f ‎(plural sophistications)

1. sophistication