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English
Etymology
From Middle English folishnesse, follissnesse, equivalent to foolish + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
foolishness (countable and uncountable, plural foolishnesses)
- (uncountable) The state of being foolish.
- (countable) A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
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state of being foolish
- Armenian: հիմարություն (hy) (himarutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: глупост (bg) f (glupost), неразумност f (nerazumnost)
- Chichewa: utsiru
- Czech: pošetilost (cs) f
- Danish: tåbelighed (da) c
- Esperanto: malsaĝeco
- Finnish: typeryys (fi)
- French: folie (fr) f, sottise (fr) f, déraison (fr) f
- Galician: tolemia (gl) f, loucura (gl) f
- German: Torheit (de) f, Dummheit (de) f, Tölpelhaftigkeit (de) f, Narrheit (de) f, Narrentum n (rare), Unverstand (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹 f (unfrōdei)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀφροσύνη f (aphrosúnē), μωρία f (mōría)
- Irish: leibideacht f, amadántacht f, amlógacht f, baothántacht f
- Italian: sciocchezza (it), stupidità (it), pazzia (it) f
- Kabuverdianu: jatura
- Khmer: ល្បែ (lbae)
- Latin: fatuitās f, stultitia f
- Latvian: muļķība f, neprātība f, dumjība (lv)
- Macedonian: глу́пост f (glúpost), нера́зумност f (nerázumnost), будала́штина f (budaláština)
- Manx: meecheeall f, anchreeaght f
- Polish: głupota (pl) f
- Portuguese: tolice (pt) f
- Russian: глу́пость (ru) f (glúpostʹ)
- Sardinian: (northern) macchìghine, macchìne, bambidudine, (southern) scimpròriu
- Scottish Gaelic: amaideas m
- Swahili: upumbavu
- Ukrainian: безглуздість (uk) f (bezhluzdistʹ), нерозсудливість f (nerozsudlyvistʹ)
- Volapük: fop (vo)
- Yiddish: נאַרישקייט f (narishkeyt)
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thing or event that is foolish