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so·phis·ti·ca·tion
/səˌfɪstəˈkeʃən/
詭辯,強詞奪理,混合
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
So·phis·ti·ca·tion
n.
The
act
of
sophisticating
;
adulteration
;
as
,
the
sophistication
of
drugs
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
sophistication
n
1:
uplifting
enlightenment
[
syn
:
edification
]
2:
a
deliberately
invalid
argument
displaying
ingenuity
in
reasoning
in
the
hope
of
deceiving
someone
[
syn
:
sophism
,
sophistry
]
3:
being
expert
or
having
knowledge
of
some
technical
subject
;
"
understanding
affine
transformations
requires
considerable
mathematical
sophistication
"
4:
the
quality
or
character
of
being
intellectually
sophisticated
through
cultivation
or
experience
or
disillusionment
[
syn
:
worldliness
] [
ant
:
naivete
]
5:
falsification
by
the
use
of
sophistry
;
misleading
by
means
of
specious
fallacies
; "
he
practiced
the
art
of
sophistication
upon
reason
"
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