Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sophistication \So*phis`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio,
   F. sophistication.]
   The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the
   sophistication of drugs. --Boyle.

Source : WordNet®

sophistication
     n 1: uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification}]
     2: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
        reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism},
         {sophistry}]
     3: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;
        "understanding affine transformations requires
        considerable mathematical sophistication"
     4: the quality or character of being intellectually
        sophisticated through cultivation or experience or
        disillusionment [syn: {worldliness}] [ant: {naivete}]
     5: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means
        of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of
        sophistication upon reason"