Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality or condition of being foolish; want of understanding; folly.
- n. A foolish practice; an absurdity.
- n. Synonyms Silliness, stupidity, imbecility, dullness, doltishness, nonsense, absurdity.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state of being foolish.
- n. countable A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being foolish.
- n. A foolish practice; an absurdity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
- n. a stupid mistake
- n. the quality of being rash and foolish
Etymologies
- foolish + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This foolishness is the result of conservative leaning alumni who have more money than brains.”
Academic Salaries, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The woman who sponsors this foolishness is a former Dean at Georgetown?”
“Write Hillary name on the ballot; What kind of foolishness is that, if she's not on the general election ballot.”
“But John Fox feigned anger, crying: What foolishness is this?”
“Jesus, thank GOD this foolishness is finally OVER.”
“A fool with a sense of his foolishness is — at least to that extent — wise.”
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“Lobby firms getting rich off this foolishness is embarassing.”
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“This is just like the nonsensical foolishness from the left stating that health care reform should be single payer, all or nothing (when no country that has single payer achieved it with one step, but rather did so over a long period with incremental steps towards a goal).”
“November 25th, 2009 1: 08 pm ET ahh, now the in-mates are truly running the asylum. when will the people see that these ladies do not care about them or their cause. this whole tea party foolishness is one mass mind warp!”
“In just a few hundred words, his article combines smears, factoids and plain foolishness in a thick stew of slavish political partisanship.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foolishness’.
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trufutant's Words
conundrum, nonsense, foolishness, swell, cacophony, grizzled, hoary, despot, bloke, ravenous, sot, quirt and 83 more...
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Hogwash!
nonsense, tripe, twaddle, bullshit, poppycock, palaver, balderdash, baloney, gobbledygook, bunk, claptrap, hooey and 88 more...
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