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sophistication

/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ noun C1
  1. Enlightenment or education. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. (countable, uncountable)
  3. Deceptive logic; sophistry. (countable, uncountable)
  4. Falsification, contamination. (countable, uncountable)
  5. Complexity. (countable, uncountable) · The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
  6. Ability to deal with complexity. (countable, uncountable)

Plural sophistications

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I was fleeing the very same meteorological gloom that you have now so eagerly embraced as a bastion of cosmopolitan sophistication.
The Malleability of Home, p. 1 · C2

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