sophistication
Pronunciation: /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
The English word “sophistication” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- Enlightenment or education.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Falsification, contamination.
- Complexity.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
Etymology
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
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