Noun
1. uplifting enlightenment
2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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
5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies;
"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"