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Silliness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.

n. An act that is silly; a result of being silly.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being silly.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being silly; foolishness; senselessness; weakness of understanding; extreme simplicity; absurd or contemptible folly.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an impulsive scatterbrained manner

n. a ludicrous folly

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

folly foolishness unwiseness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

stupidity triviality incompetence ineptitude foolishness