1. (机器、方法的)精密，复杂，先进
The sophistication of machines or methods is their quality of being more advanced or complex than others.
2. (人的)高度文化修养
Sophistication is the quality of being comfortable in social situations and knowing about culture, fashion, and other matters that are considered socially important.
3. 精明老练
Sophistication is the quality of being intelligent and knowing a lot, so that you are able to understand complicated situations.
1. falsification by the use of sophistry
misleading by means of specious fallacies
e.g. he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
2. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Synonym: worldlinessmundanenessmundanity
3. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
e.g. understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
4. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
5. uplifting enlightenment
Synonym: edification