sophistication
/sə,fɪstə'keɪʃən/
noun
14 letters5 syllables21 points in Scrabble®23 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS5
NOUN
1
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
2
The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
3
Uplifting enlightenment.
4
Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject.
“understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication”
5
Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies.
“he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”
WORD FORMS
Related formsophisticate
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®21 points
Words With Friends®23 points
Double word42 points
Triple word63 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinophisticationsay
Starts & ends withS … N
Syllablesso · phis · ti · ca · tion
SYNONYMS & RELATED8
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