資料來源 : pyDict
詭辯,強詞奪理,混合
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio,
F. sophistication.]
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.
資料來源 : WordNet®
sophistication
n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification}]
2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism},
{sophistry}]
3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
"understanding affine transformations requires
considerable mathematical sophistication"
4: the quality or character of being intellectually
sophisticated through cultivation or experience or
disillusionment [syn: {worldliness}] [ant: {naivete}]
5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means
of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of
sophistication upon reason"