sophistication

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: so=phis=ti=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

sophistication, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.].

 The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sophistication

accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized taste, civilizedness, complexity, cosmopolitanism, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, disingenuousness, distortion, edification, education, elegance, enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness, finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy, jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability, learning, liberal education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past experience, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise, polish, practical knowledge, practice, quality, rationalization, refinement, sagacity, savoir faire, seasoning, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, store of knowledge, style, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility, undeceivability, ungullibility, unhoaxability, unseduceability, urbanity, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness, worldly wisdom

ROGET THESAURUS

sophistication

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.