sophistication
noun
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- adjective
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
uplifting enlightenment
Types & categories
- enlightenment hypernym
- disenchantment hyponym
Related & opposite
- enlighten derivation
Sense 2 noun
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Types & categories
- fallacy hypernym
Related & opposite
- casuist derivation
- twist around derivation
- sophistical derivation
Sense 3 noun
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
Types & categories
- expertness hypernym
Related & opposite
- sophisticate derivation
Sense 4 noun
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
Related & opposite
- naivete antonym
- sophisticate derivation
- blase derivation
- mundane derivation
Sense 5 noun
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
Types & categories
- falsehood hypernym
Related & opposite
- twist around derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | enlighten |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | enlightenment |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disenchantment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | casuist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | twist around |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sophistical |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fallacy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sophisticate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | expertness |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | naivete |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sophisticate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | blase |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | mundane |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | twist around |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | falsehood |