Dictionary Check: sophistication
"sophistication" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
uplifting enlightenment
noun
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
noun
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
Example:
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
noun
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
noun
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
Example:
"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
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