sophistication
noun
- the process or result of becoming more complex, developed, or subtle
- word derived from sophistry
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
- Enlightenment or education.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Falsification, contamination.
- Complexity.
“The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.”
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
“the sophistication of drugs”
“how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful”