Associations to the word «Sophistication»

Wiktionary

SOPHISTICATION, noun. Enlightenment or education.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Falsification or contamination.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Complexity
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Ability to deal with complexity
SOPHISTICATION, noun. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

Dictionary definition

SOPHISTICATION, noun. Uplifting enlightenment.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication".
SOPHISTICATION, noun. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
SOPHISTICATION, noun. Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne