foolability

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English

Etymology

From fool +‎ -ability.

Noun

foolability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being foolable.
    • 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The London Conference: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; the Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 2nd book (The Days after Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration), page 114:
      Yet for such crucial purposes as bringing about a war or exploiting an economic situation, this was manifestly a quite disastrous degree of foolability.