Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being silly; foolishness; senselessness; weakness of understanding; extreme simplicity; absurd or contemptible folly.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.
- n. countable An act that is silly; a result of being silly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being silly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an impulsive scatterbrained manner
- n. a ludicrous folly
Etymologies
- silly + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And this Pink Army silliness is about Sheehan and not the source of the supposed statement.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
“There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nickname unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border.”
“There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nick-name unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border.”
“All this silliness is going to reach a fever pitch by Sunday morning on the talk shows.”
“What I think feeds this sword-silliness is the same derailed train of thought that insists on Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Dukes, Barons, Doges, Counts, and on and on and on.”
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists
“Such silliness is great for the ratings, but pul-ese!”
“The fact that such silliness is even making it to news headlines is, at the very least, disturbing.”
“But the one that overtakes them all for histrionics and flat-out silliness is the one that jumped up and down, flapped its arms feverishly and cried out: Curva muy muy muy peligrosa — very, very, very dangerous curve ahead.”
“Now that that silliness is over where is Tim Vaculik and that other little fellow to explain to me about this republican led state exodus tax ….”
Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
“The people behind the Murray Hill caper are being a bit silly, but that silliness is useful if it leads to a court case to clarify the law.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » First Amendment Rights vs. Rights to Vote / Be a Candidate
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silliness’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Lines
lines, line, recline, line item, incline, Line Islands, acetylcholine, aclinic line, linen, Linear A, line storm, landline and 13 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 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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