sophism, sophistry, sophistication -- (a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone)
sophistication -- (being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication")
sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity -- (the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment)
sophistication -- (falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason")
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