Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”)

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

plural of sophist

A worldly-wise person.

Not genuine; not pure; adulterated.

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

plural of sophister

plural of sophistication

plural of sophisticate

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