sophistication
noun
sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc..
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It is assuredly mortal to habits of intellectual self-respect in the society which allows itself to be amused by the cajolery and legerdemain and self-sophistication of its rulers.
From On Compromise by John Morley