Sophistication is the quality of being experienced, cultured, or refined in taste and manners. It can also mean complexity or advanced development in ideas or technology.
From *sophisticate* “to adulterate, to make worldly” + *-ion*. *Sophisticate* comes from Medieval Latin *sophisticatus*, from Greek *sophos* “wise, clever.” The word shifted from “tricked-up” to “refined and complex.”
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