sophistication

(noun) uplifting enlightenment. Synonyms: edification.

(noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone. Synonyms: sophism, sophistry.

(noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject. Example: "Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication."

(noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment. Synonyms: worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity.

(noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies. Example: "He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason."