sophistication

nouns

uplifting enlightenment
edification, sophistication
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
sophism, sophistication, sophistry
is derived from
sophisticate
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
"understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
sophistication
is derived from
sophisticate
is a type of (narrower)
skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
expertise, expertness
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness
is derived from
sophisticate
antonym
naivete
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
sophistication
is derived from
sophisticate
is a type of (narrower)
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
falsehood, falsification