sophistication
pronunciation
How to pronounce sophistication in British English:
UK [səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn]
How to pronounce sophistication in American English:
US [səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- uplifting enlightenment
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
Word Origin
- sophistication (n.)
- early 15c., "use of sophistry; fallacious argument intended to mislead; adulteration; an adulterated or adulterating substance," from Medieval Latin sophisticationem (nominative sophisticatio), noun of action from past participle stem of sophisticare "adulterate, cheat quibble," from Latin sophisticus "of sophists," from Greek sophistikos "of or pertaining to a sophist," from sophistes "a wise man, master, teacher" (see sophist). Meaning "wordly wisdom, refinement, discrimination" is attested from 1850.
Example
- 1. If the price of sophistication is instability , something is wrong .
- 2. Europeans had nothing of comparable sophistication until well into the 16th century .
- 3. Statistical offices vary in their technical sophistication and ability to resist political pressure .
- 4. The computer model used is of only middling sophistication , dr schmittner admits .
- 5. But the sector still has plenty of scope to grow in both size and sophistication .