| n. | 1. | The act of sophisticating; adulteration; |
| Noun | 1. | sophistication - uplifting enlightenment Synonyms: edification |
| 2. | sophistication - a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | |
| 3. | sophistication - being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication" | |
| 4. | sophistication - the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment Synonyms: worldliness | |
| 5. | sophistication - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" |