Sophistication

Definitions

1. Enlightenment or education.
   countable, uncountable
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
   countable, uncountable
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
   countable, uncountable
4. Falsification, contamination.
   countable, uncountable
5. Complexity.
   countable, uncountable
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
   countable, uncountable
7. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The police force⟳ were unable to deal⟳ with the sophistication of the criminal network.”

“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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