| Pronunciation: | | su`fistu'keyshun
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- [n] falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
- [n] the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- [n] being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
- [n] a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- [n] uplifting enlightenment
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| | Synonyms: | | edification, sophism, sophistry, worldliness |
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| | Antonyms: | | naiveness, naivete, naivety |
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| | See Also: | | disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, enlightenment, expertise, expertness, fallacy, false belief, falsehood, falsification, quality |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio,
F. sophistication.]
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.
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