Enlightenment or education. / Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. / Deceptive logic; sophistry. / Falsification or contamination. / Complexity. / Ability to deal with complexity.

plural of sophistication

plural of sophisticate

A sophist. / (dated, UK, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.

plural of sophister

Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry. / Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.

Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. / Elegant, refined. / Complicated, especially of complex technology. / Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.

simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

Not genuine; not pure; adulterated.

(transitive) To make less natural or innocent. / To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.