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Sophistication

noun

Uplifting enlightenment. Synonym: edification.

A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone. Synonyms: sophism, sophistry.

Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject.

The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment. Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness.

Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies.

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"Sophistication" Quotes from Famous Books

... mere cloaks and masks they were, and every man brought once again to a clear realization of his actual relations to his fellows! It was as if trained and sophisticated men had been rid of a sudden of their sophistication and of all the theory of their life, and left with nothing but their discipline of faculty, a schooled and sobered instinct. And the fact that we kept always, for close upon three hundred years, a like element in our life, a frontier people ...

— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various

... address in East Sixty-seventh Street, only a few doors from Fifth Avenue, but her social sophistication was not up to the point of seeing the significance of this. Neither did her imagination try to picture the home or to see it otherwise than as an alternative to the police-station, or worse, as ...

— The Dust Flower • Basil King

... third of that which she heard made no difference to her. His ambiguity of utterance, backed by assurance and illumined by the divine fire of inspiration, awakened curiosity in the placid breast of this Desdemona of the mesas. It required no sophistication on her part to realize that this caballero was not as the vaqueros she had heretofore known. He made no boorish jests; his eyes were not as the eyes of many that had gazed at her in a way that had tinged her dusky cheeks with warm resentment. She ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... with what is brought from the East Indies. Some years ago a friend of mine paid sixteen guineas for two ounces of it; and, in six months after, it was sold in the same shop for five shillings the pound. In short, we live in a vile world of fraud and sophistication; so that I know nothing of equal value with the genuine friendship of a sensible man; a rare jewel! which I cannot help thinking myself in possession of, while I repeat the old declaration, that ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... Whitworth developed machine tools of increasing size and truth. The design of other machinery kept pace with—sometimes just behind, sometimes just ahead of—the capacity and capability of machine tools. In general, there was an increasing sophistication of mechanisms that could only be accounted for by an increase of information with which the individual designer ...

— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson

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