Dictionary Check: sophistication

"sophistication" is a valid word!

Scrabble 21 points
Words with Friends 23 points

Definition

noun

uplifting enlightenment

Synonyms:
noun

a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Synonyms:
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

Antonyms:
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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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