noun
Meaning 1
Enlightenment or education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sophistication
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noun
Meaning 2
Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Falsification, contamination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Complexity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
Ability to deal with complexity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Examples
- the sophistication of drugs
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pollution, adulteration, contamination, defedation, defilement, sophistication
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: falsification, falsehood
noun
Meaning 9
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity
Antonyms: naivete
Broader terms: quality
noun
Meaning 10
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expertness, expertise
noun
Meaning 11
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sophism, sophistry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fallacy, false belief
noun
Meaning 12
uplifting enlightenment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: enlightenment
Narrower terms: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
History
Etymology
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: sofisticació — enlightenment or education
- Chinese Mandarin: 教養 /教养 (jiàoyǎng) — enlightenment or education
- French: sophistication — enlightenment or education
- German: Erfahrenheit — enlightenment or education
- German: Beschlagenheit — enlightenment or education
- German: Ausgereiftheit — enlightenment or education
- Italian: sofisticazione — enlightenment or education
- Polish: zaawansowanie — enlightenment or education
- Portuguese: sofisticação — enlightenment or education
- Russian: просвеще́ние (prosveščénije) — enlightenment or education
- Scottish Gaelic: ionnsachadh — enlightenment or education
- Spanish: sofisticación — enlightenment or education
- Bulgarian: изисканост (iziskanost) — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Bulgarian: изтънченост (iztǎnčenost) — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Catalan: sofisticació — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Catalan: finesa — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- German: Kultiviertheit — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- German: Raffinesse — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Italian: raffinatezza — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Latin: urbānitās — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Polish: obycie — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Polish: wyrobienie — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Russian: искушённость (iskušónnostʹ) — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Russian: утончённость (utončónnostʹ) — cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire
- Bulgarian: софистика (sofistika) — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Catalan: finesa — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Catalan: sofisticació — deceptive logic; sophistry
- German: Raffinesse — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Hungarian: álokoskodás — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Hungarian: hamis érvelés — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Russian: софи́стика (sofístika) — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Spanish: sofistiquez — deceptive logic; sophistry
- Bulgarian: подправяне (podpravjane) — falsification
- Bulgarian: фалшификация (falšifikacija) — falsification
- Hungarian: meghamisítás — falsification
- Hungarian: elferdítés — falsification
- Russian: фальсифика́ция (falʹsifikácija) — falsification
- Bulgarian: сложност (složnost) — complexity
- German: Raffinesse — complexity
- German: Komplexheit — complexity
- German: Ausgereiftheit — complexity
- German: Sophistikation — complexity
- German: Hochentwicklung — complexity
- Italian: complessità — complexity
- Italian: finezza — complexity
- Polish: finezja — complexity
- Polish: wyrafinowanie — complexity
- Russian: сло́жность (slóžnostʹ) — complexity
- Russian: изощрённость (izoščrjónnostʹ) — complexity