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sophistication
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sophistication has 5 senses
- sophistication(n = noun.cognition) edification - uplifting enlightenment; Array is a kind of enlightenment
- sophistication(n = noun.cognition) sophism, sophistry - a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone; Array is a kind of fallacy, false belief
- sophistication(n = noun.cognition) Array - being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication" is a kind of expertise, expertness
- sophistication(n = noun.attribute) mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness - the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; Array is a kind of quality
- sophistication(n = noun.act) Array - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason" is a kind of falsehood, falsification
has particulars: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
Derived form verb sophisticate2
Derived form verb sophisticate4
Antonym: naivete
Derived form verb sophisticate1
Derived form verb sophisticate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sophistication, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.].
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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 wisdomROGET THESAURUS
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Mixture
N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.
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