Sophistication

Quick meaning: Sophistication is a noun meaning Enlightenment or education.

Meaning

Enlightenment or education.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

the sophistication of drugs

The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.

how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful

Word Forms

• sophistications

Synonyms for sophistication

Depending on context, synonyms include pollution, adulteration, contamination, defedation, defilement, edification.

Antonyms for sophistication

Common opposites include provincialism, naivete, naiveness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worldliness, edification, expertise, know-how, ingenuity, knowledge.

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