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Definition of Foolishness

1. Noun. The trait of acting stupidly or rashly.

2. Noun. The quality of being rash and foolish. "Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"

3. Noun. A stupid mistake.

Definition of Foolishness

1. n. The quality of being foolish.

Definition of Foolishness

1. Noun. The state of being foolish. ¹

2. Noun. A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foolishness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foolishness

foolhardinesses foolhardise foolhardy foolheartedly foolhood foolify fooling fooling about fooling around foolings

foolish foolish woman foolisher foolishest foolishly foolishness (current term) foolishnesses foolometer foolometers foolproof

fools fools' errands fools around fools rush in where angels fear to tread foolscap foolscaps foom foon foons foordite

Literary usage of Foolishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"... Tim THE WISDOM OF foolishness HAS enough been said about the foolishness of friendship, — not the foolishness of being friends, but the wisdom of being ..."

2. The Works of Jonathan Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life and Character by Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards (1854)
"Yet this same gospel which was to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness, and which is both a stumbling- block and foolishness to modern ..."

3. Selection Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year from the by John Henry Newman (1878)
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." — I COR. iii. 18, 19. ..."

4. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1899)
"Thus their foolishness actually consisted in that feeble imagination which they mistook for wisdom. Hence it is that the very things which to them that ..."

5. Parochial Sermons by John Henry Newman (1837)
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ... For," he proceeds, (just as real wisdom is foolishness in the eyes of the world ..."

6. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"... after their foolishness hath perverted their way, and made them undergo the consequences of their own misconduct, they impiously fret in heart against ..."

7. The Congregational Review (1869)
"foolishness. When brilliant old Athenian wit The plain and earnest gospel met, It ou the story and the stress, Pronounced the verdict " foolishness. ..."

8. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"crafty devil ! lie went away, not for fear of the holy water, but because he would maintain men in error and foolishness. And no doubt it was the devil's ..."

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