sophistication

Noun

• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
  • he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason
    

• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
  • understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
    

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• uplifting enlightenment

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  worldliness , mundaneness , mundanity , sophism , sophistry , edification
• Antonyms: 
  naivete , naivety , naiveness