Definition of "sophistication"

sophistication

/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural sophistications
1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification or contamination.
5. Complexity.
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
  Quotations
  how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful
  1663-1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy