foolishness

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Etymology

foolish +‎ -ness

Noun

foolishness (countable and uncountable; plural foolishnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of being foolish.
2. (countable) A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.

Synonyms

• imprudence, folly
• extravagance, irresponsibility
• indiscretion, absurdity
• ridiculousness
• stupidity

Antonyms

• wisdom

Related terms

• fool

Translations

state of being foolish

• Czech: pošetilost (cs) f
• Danish: tåbelighed (da) c
• Esperanto: malsaĝeco (eo)
• Finnish: typeryys (fi)
• German: Torheit (de) f
• Irish: leibideacht (ga) f
• Italian: sciocchezza (it), stupidità (it)

• Latvian: muļķība (lv) f, neprātība (lv) f, dumjība (lv)
• Polish: głupota (pl) f
• Russian: глупость (ru) (glúpost') f 
• Sardinian: (northern) macchìghine, macchìne, bambidudine, (southern) scimpròriu
• Scottish Gaelic: amaideas (gd) m

thing or event that is foolish

• Czech: pošetilost (cs) f
• Danish: tåbelighed (da) c
• Finnish: typeryys (fi)
• German: Dummheit (de) f
• Italian: sciocchezza (it), stupidità (it)

• Latvian: muļķība (lv), neprātība (lv) f, dumjība (lv) f
• Polish: głupota (pl) f
• Russian: глупость (ru) (glúpost') f 
• Scottish Gaelic: amaideas (gd) m