sophistication

The act or process of sophisticating.

The process of perverting or misleading by sophistry; hence, loosely, any perversion or wresting from the proper course; a leading or going astray.

Adulteration; debasement by meaus of a foreign admixture.

A sophism; a quibble; a specious fallacy.

That which is adulterated or not genuine; the product of adulteration.