sophistication.
Enlightenment or education.
Meaning & usage
Enlightenment or education.
Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
Falsification, contamination.
Complexity.
The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
Ability to deal with complexity.
The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
the sophistication of drugs
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
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