sophistication
Sophistication is the quality that belongs to a person who appears wise and glamorous. Sipping tea and appreciating opera are both stereotypical signs of sophistication.
The noun sophistication can also be used in a slightly different way, to describe a deep understanding, or an almost enlightened state. Before the 1800s, sophistication meant “the use of sophistry,” or using mistaken or deceitful arguments, although the root word for both sophistication and “sophistry” is the Greek sophistes, or “wise man.”
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the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
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falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
“he practiced the art of
sophistication upon reason”-
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falsehood, falsification
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
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falsehood, falsification
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a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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fallacy, false belief
a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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fallacy, false belief
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uplifting enlightenment
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disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
freedom from false belief or illusions
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enlightenment
education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
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disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
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being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
“understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical
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expertise, expertness
skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
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expertise, expertness