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sophistications

sophistications is the plural of sophistication.

Meaning of sophistication

Noun

sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)

  1. Enlightenment or education.
  2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
  3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
  4. Falsification, contamination.
  5. Complexity.
    • The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
  6. Ability to deal with complexity.

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Questions about sophistications

What is sophistications the plural of?
Sophistications is the plural of sophistication.

Words near sophistications in the dictionary

  1. sophisticatedly
  2. sophisticatedness
  3. sophisticates
  4. sophisticating
  5. sophistication
  6. sophistications
  7. sophisticative
  8. sophisticator
  9. sophisticators
  10. sophisticism
  11. sophisticisms

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