sophistication

Noun
  1. Uplifting enlightenment (synset 105996720)
    is a type of: enlightenment - education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
    subtypes: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment - freeing from false belief or illusions
    same as: edification
  2. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (synset 105903745)
    is a type of: fallacy, false belief - a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
    same as: sophism, sophistry
  3. Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject (synset 105649050)
    "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
    is a type of: expertise, expertness - skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
  4. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment (synset 104887468)
    is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
    same as: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness
  5. Falsification by the use of sophistry;
    Misleading by means of specious fallacies (synset 100754815)
    "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
    is a type of: falsehood, falsification - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

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