noun. The act or process of sophisticating.

noun. The process of perverting or misleading by sophistry; hence, loosely, any perversion or wresting from the proper course; a leading or going astray.

noun. Adulteration; debasement by meaus of a foreign admixture.

noun. A sophism; a quibble; a specious fallacy.

noun. That which is adulterated or not genuine; the product of adulteration.

noun. A means of adulteration; any substance mixed with another for the purpose of adulteration.

noun. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

noun. Enlightenment or education.

noun. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

noun. Deceptive logic; sophistry.

noun. Falsification or contamination.

noun. Complexity

noun. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

noun. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

noun. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

noun. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

noun. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

noun. uplifting enlightenment