<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.</li><li>change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition.</li><li>complexity, as in design or organization.</li><li>impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness.</li><li>the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument.</li></ul>