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

"Greatness is to them inseparably connected with crowdedness, and what they call sophistication is at bottom nothing but a wallowing in that herd instinct which takes the place of mankind's ancient antagonist in Hamsun's books."

expertise  expertness  fallacy  false belief  falsehood  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

accomplishment  acumen  clarity  cleverness  competence  

accomplishments  acquired taste  acquisition of knowledge  acquisitions  adulteration