noun (n)

• uplifting enlightenment(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  edification
  

  source: wordnet30
• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  sophism, sophistry
  

  source: wordnet30
• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject(noun.cognition)

  Example:
  Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness
  Antonym:
  naiveness, naivete, naivety
  

  source: wordnet30
• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies(noun.act)

  Example:
  He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason.
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.(noun)

  source: webster1913