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Synonyms for sophistication

Noun

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