sophistication /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ noun7 •Enlightenment or education. •Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. •Complexity.The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network. •Ability to deal with complexity. •Deceptive logic; sophistry. •Falsification, contamination. •(no longer used) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.the sophistication of drugs formssophistications