sophistication

What it means

1. countableuncountableEnlightenment or education.
2. countableuncountableCultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. countableuncountableDeceptive logic; sophistry.

In a sentence

The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.

Where it comes from

1. Medieval Latinsophisticātiōnis
2. Old Frenchsofisticacion, sophisticacion
3. Middle Englishsophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun
4. Englishsophistication

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.