Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)sophism, sophistry, sophisticationa deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
(n)sophisticationbeing expert or having knowledge of some technical subject“understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication”
(n)sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanitythe quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
(n)sophisticationfalsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies“he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”