Synonyms for foolishness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : foo-lish

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfu lɪʃ

Top 10 synonyms for foolishness

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Définition of foolishness

Origin : early 14c., from fool (n.) + -ish. Related: Foolishly; foolishness. Old English words for this were dysig, stunt, dol.

noun idiocy, nonsense

Example sentences :

His long habit of thought concerning her enabled him to master this foolishness.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

We must protect her from the consequences of her own foolishness.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

It just came over me, all at once, that I—It was just foolishness.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I didn't enter him; that was somebody else's foolishness, and I don't want to back him.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

"Don't ye be lettin' yourself belave your own foolishness," she said.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

"Now stop this nerve strain and this foolishness," he said tersely.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

All my devices of horse-hair and deer-hide snares were foolishness in their sharp eyes.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

But I know it is all foolishness, as well as you do, all craziness.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

But I always have a little distrust for the foolishness of a person who has once been a knave.
Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman

But, in my foolishness, I forgot to ask for everlasting youth.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

Antonyms for foolishness

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