sophistication

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. uplifting enlightenment (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
edification
• Derivationally related forms:
edify (for: edification)
• Hypernyms:
enlightenment
• Hyponyms:
disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment
2. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
• Syn:
worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity
• Ant:
naivete
• Derivationally related forms:
mundane (for: mundaneness), worldly (for: worldliness), sophisticate
• Hypernyms:
quality
3. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
• Syn:
sophism, sophistry
• Derivationally related forms:
sophisticate, sophistic (for: sophism), sophist (for: sophism)
• Hypernyms:
fallacy, false belief
4. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
• Derivationally related forms:
sophisticate
• Hypernyms:
expertness, expertise
5. falsification by the use of sophistry;
misleading by means of specious fallacies
- he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
• Derivationally related forms:
sophisticate
• Hypernyms:
falsification, falsehood

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity, sophism, sophistry, edification
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  naivete, naivety, naiveness