Definitions for sophistication
səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃənso·phis·ti·ca·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.8 / 4 votes

1. edification, sophisticationnoun

   uplifting enlightenment

2. sophism, sophistry, sophisticationnoun

   a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

3. sophisticationnoun

   being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

   "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

4. sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanitynoun

   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

5. sophisticationnoun

   falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

   "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 4 votes

1. sophisticationnoun

   Enlightenment or education.

2. sophisticationnoun

   Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

3. sophisticationnoun

   Deceptive logic; sophistry.

4. sophisticationnoun

   Falsification or contamination.

5. sophisticationnoun

   Complexity

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sophisticationnoun

   Adulteration; not genuineness.

   Etymology: sophistication, Fr. from sophisticate.

   Sophistication is the act of counterfeiting or adulterating any thing with what is not so good, for the sake of unlawful gain. John Quincy.

   The drugs and simples sold in shops, generally are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the sellers, especially if the preciousness may make their sophistication very beneficial. Boyle.

   Besides easy submission to sophistications of sense, we have inability to prevent the miscarriages of our junior reasons. Joseph Glanvill.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sophistication

   Sophistication has come to mean a few things, but its original uses were a pejorative, derived from sophist, and included the idea of admixture or adulteration. Today, as researched by Faye Hammill, it is common as a measure of refinement—displaying good taste, wisdom and subtlety rather than crudeness, stupidity and vulgarity. In the perception of social class, sophistication can be linked with concepts such as status, privilege and superiority.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sophistication

   Sophistication refers to the quality of being worldly-wise, refined, cultured, complex, or intricate. It includes possessing a wide range of knowledge, understanding, and experience, often in relation to social customs, art, literature, and other forms of high culture. Sophistication can also refer to the complexity or intricacy of a system, structure, or method.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sophisticationnoun

   the act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs

2. Etymology: [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.]

Matched Categories

1. • Enlightenment
   • Expertness
   • Falsification

How to pronounce sophistication?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sophistication in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sophistication in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of sophistication in a Sentence

1. James Scott:

   Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.

2. Ryan Cummings:

   They've executed attacks on hotels before, but none at the level of sophistication or as spectacular as have been in recent months.

3. Euan Graham:

   That’s the level of sophistication – it looks like a strike package, and that’s part of the step up in pressure, this is not a couple of fighters coming close and then going straight back after putting one wing across the median; this is a much more purposeful maneuver.

4. Shiladitya DasSarma:

   As the sophistication in the telescope increases, the prediction is that they will be able to determine the spectrum coming from these planets, they're so far away, and really there's no light, it's only the star they'd be able to see, but that's the goal. Because its so important to be able to detect life elsewhere in the universe.

5. Alexis Hiniker:

   Alexa isn't going to be able to teach a child to speak, just like children can't learn to speak from TV, even though smart speakers — unlike TV — are interactive, they are nowhere near the sophistication of a human, or more specifically, the sophistication of an adult who can instinctively coach a child in picking up her first language.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sophistication
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sophistication
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sophistication
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistication
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophistication