uplifting enlightenment

[ Syn: edification ]

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

[ Syn: sophism , sophistry ]

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

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

[ Syn: worldliness , mundaneness , mundanity ]

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