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

plural of sophist

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

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

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