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Meaning of sophistication

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sophistication
      n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification},
           {sophistication}]
      2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
         reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism},
         {sophistry}, {sophistication}]
      3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
         "understanding affine transformations requires considerable
         mathematical sophistication"
      4: the quality or character of being intellectually
         sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience
         or disillusionment [syn: {sophistication}, {worldliness},
         {mundaneness}, {mundanity}] [ant: {naiveness}, {naivete},
         {naivety}]
      5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of
         specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication
         upon reason"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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