sophistication

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
23
Letters
14
Pronunciation
/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Definition of sophistication

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Enlightenment or education.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Enlightenment or education.
  2. (countable, uncountable)Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
  3. (countable, uncountable)Deceptive logic; sophistry.
  4. (countable, uncountable)Falsification, contamination.
  5. (countable, uncountable)Complexity.
    “The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.”
  6. (countable, uncountable)Ability to deal with complexity.
  7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)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”

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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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