foolishness

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  1. The quality or condition of being foolish; want of understanding; folly. Is virtue then, unless of Christian growth, Mere fallacy, or foolishness, or both? Cowper, Truth, l. 516. “Ugh!” cried the Sun, and vizoring up a red And cipher face of rounded foolishness, Push'd horse across the foamings of the ford. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette.
  2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
  3. Synonyms Silliness, stupidity, imbecility, dullness, doltishness, nonsense, absurdity.

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