sophistication

n. worldliness, experience; complexity

Noun
1. uplifting enlightenment
(synonym) edification
(hypernym) enlightenment
(hyponym) disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
(synonym) sophism, sophistry
(hypernym) fallacy, false belief
(derivation) twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate
3. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
(hypernym) expertness, expertise
(derivation) sophisticate
4. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
(synonym) worldliness
(antonym) naivete, naivety, naiveness
(hypernym) quality
(derivation) sophisticate
5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
(hypernym) falsification, falsehood
(derivation) twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate

n. sophistication, worldliness, experience; complexity

(n.)
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
  

Synonyms and related words:
accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized taste, civilizedness, complexity, cosmopolitanism, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, disingenuousness, distortion, edification, education, elegance, enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness, finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy, jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability, learning, liberal education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past experience, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise, polish, practical knowledge, practice, quality, rationalization, refinement, sagacity, savoir faire, seasoning, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, store of knowledge, style, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility, undeceivability, ungullibility, unhoaxability, unseduceability, urbanity, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness, worldly wisdom