[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sophistication \sophis`tica"tion\, n. cf. ll. sophisticatio,
   f. sophistication.
   the act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
   sophistication of drugs. --boyle.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sophistication
     n 1: uplifting enlightenment syn: edification
     2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
        reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone syn: sophism,
         sophistry
     3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
        "understanding affine transformations requires
        considerable mathematical sophistication"
     4: the quality or character of being intellectually
        sophisticated through cultivation or experience or
        disillusionment syn: worldliness ant: naivete
     5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means
        of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of
        sophistication upon reason"
see also:
edification sophism sophistry worldliness naivete 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

100 moby thesaurus words for "sophistication":
   accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge,
   acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence,
   attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry,
   choiceness, circularity, civilized taste, civilizedness,
   complexity, cosmopolitanism, cultivated taste, cultivation,
   culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination,
   disingenuousness, distortion, edification, education, elegance,
   enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning,
   excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness,
   finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity,
   graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy,
   jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability, learning,
   liberal education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety,
   obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past experience,
   perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise,
   polish, practical knowledge, practice, quality, rationalization,
   refinement, sagacity, savoir faire, seasoning, sophism,
   sophistical reasoning, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity,
   specious reasoning, speciousness, store of knowledge, style,
   subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility,
   undeceivability, ungullibility, unhoaxability, unseduceability,
   urbanity, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness,
   worldly wisdom

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