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n. Enlightenment or education.

n. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.

n. Deceptive logic; sophistry.

n. Falsification or contamination.

n. Complexity

n. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

n. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

n. The act or process of sophisticating.

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

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

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

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

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

n. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

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

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

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

n. 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."

expertness    expertise    quality    false belief    fallacy    falsehood    falsification   

adulteration   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

acumen    complexity    expertise    refinement    competence    cleverness    flexibility    opulence    subtlety    gentleness