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sophistication

noun
/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.

  1. derived from sophisticātiō
  2. derived from sofisticacion,sophisticacion
  3. inherited from sophisticacion,sophisticacioun,sophisticacoun

Definitions

  1. Enlightenment or education.

  2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness

    Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

  3. Deceptive logic

    Deceptive logic; sophistry.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Falsification, contamination.

    2. Complexity.

      • The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.

    3. Ability to deal with complexity.

    4. The act of sophisticating

      The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

      • the sophistication of drugs
      • how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful

The neighborhood

  • antonymprovincialismantonym(s) of “cultivated intellectual worldliness”

Derived

oversophistication, ultrasophistication, unsophistication

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sophistication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA