Definition of "sophistication" []

• Enlightenment or education. (noun)
• Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. (noun)
• Deceptive logic; sophistry. (noun)
• Falsification or contamination. (noun)
• Complexity (noun)

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• "Greatness is to them inseparably connected with crowdedness, and what they call sophistication is at bottom nothing but a wallowing in that herd instinct which takes the place of mankind's ancient antagonist in Hamsun's books."
• "Political sophistication is partly code for "giving politicians money" it seems."
• "The juxtaposition between sweet, goofy Miss Swanson from the Door Store commercials and this … erm .. level of sophistication is a real eye-opener."