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Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
Saint Bernard

Meaning of "foolishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOLISHNESS

foolishness  [ˈfuːlɪʃnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOLISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foolishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOOLISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

foolishness

Foolishness

Foolishness is the lack or failure of wisdom and of making proper careful choices. In this sense, it differs from stupidity, which is the lack of intelligence. An act of foolishness is called folly. Foolish talk is called stultiloquence. Foolishness and wisdom are contrasted in Paul's letter to the Corinthians. He condemns intellectual arrogance and advocates a humble attitude of foolishness in which it is then possible to learn. Plato likewise said, "He is the wisest man who knows himself to be ill-equipped for the study of wisdom", but Paul makes a distinction between wisdom and the reason of the Greeks.

Definition of foolishness in the English dictionary

The definition of foolishness in the dictionary is the state of being unwise or silly.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOLISHNESS


boorishness
ˈbʊərɪʃnɪs
Britishness
ˈbrɪtɪʃnɪs
childishness
ˈtʃaɪldɪʃnɪs
churlishness
ˈtʃɜːlɪʃnɪs
devilishness
ˈdɛvlɪʃnɪs
feverishness
ˈfiːvərɪʃnɪs
foppishness
ˈfɒpɪʃnɪs
garishness
ˈɡɛərɪʃnɪs
ghoulishness
ˈɡuːlɪʃnɪs
lavishness
ˈlævɪʃnɪs
mulishness
ˈmjuːlɪʃnɪs
offishness
ˈɒfɪʃnɪs
prudishness
ˈpruːdɪʃnɪs
selfishness
ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs
sluggishness
ˈslʌɡɪʃnɪs
snappishness
ˈsnæpɪʃnɪs
snobbishness
ˈsnɒbɪʃnɪs
squeamishness
ˈskwiːmɪʃnɪs
stylishness
ˈstaɪlɪʃnɪs
unselfishness
ʌnˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOLISHNESS

fool´s-parsley
foolbegged
fooleries
foolery
foolfish
foolhardier
foolhardiest
foolhardily
foolhardiness
foolhardy
fooling about
foolish
foolishly
foolproof
foolscap
foolscap envelope
foolscap octavo
foolscap quarto
foolscap sheet
foolscap size

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOLISHNESS

brashness
bullishness
business
Caithness
Englishness
freshness
greenishness
harshness
highness
Jewishness
lushness
much of a muchness
muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
Royal Highness
smoothness
suchness
thoroughness
toughness

Synonyms and antonyms of foolishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOOLISHNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «foolishness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of foolishness

Translation of «foolishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOLISHNESS

Find out the translation of foolishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foolishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foolishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

愚蠢的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

locura
570 millions of speakers

English

foolishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्खता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حماقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

глупость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

loucura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্বুদ্ধিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sottise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebodohan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Torheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

愚かさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어리 석음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bodho
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

luống cuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டாள்தனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aptallık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stupidità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głupota
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дурість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nebunie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανοησία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwaasheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oförstånd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårskap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foolishness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOLISHNESS»

The term «foolishness» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.812 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOLISHNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «foolishness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «foolishness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foolishness

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10 QUOTES WITH «FOOLISHNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foolishness.
1
Afrika Bambaataa
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
2
Afrika Bambaataa
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
3
Saint Bernard
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
4
Ray Comfort
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
5
Abraham Cowley
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
6
Oriana Fallaci
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
7
James E. Faust
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.
8
Joe Flaherty
There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
9
Ginnifer Goodwin
I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.
10
Sacha Guitry
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOLISHNESS»

Discover the use of foolishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foolishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
April Foolishness
Grandma, Grandpa, and the grandkids enjoy April Fools' Day on the farm.
Teresa Bateman, 2004
2
Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of ...
This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation - serves as a locus for a ...
Harriet Murav, 1992
3
Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
This book is a somewhat expanded version of the Warfield Lectures given at Princeton Theological Seminary in March 1984.
Lesslie Newbigin, 1986
4
The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel Against ...
In Part 1 of the book, "The Bedrock of Preaching", Capon discusses how essential it is to have "a passion for the Passion" (to believe passionately in the Good News of salvation in Christ), how to overcome the stumbling blocks to genuinely ...
Robert Farrar Capon, 1997
5
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
From magnet therapy and cold fusion to the Podkletnov gravity shield, Park leads readers through the dim back alleys of fringe science, down the corridors of Washington power and into our evolutionary past to search out the origins of ...
Robert L. Park, 2000
6
St. Francis and the Foolishness of God
To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.
Marie Dennis, 1993
7
A Blush of Maidens, a Foolishness of Old Men: Stories, ...
Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming. Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.
William D. Skees, 2006
8
Songs of Fun and Foolishness
This book presents a collection of over 50 traditional 19th and early 20th century songs full of fun and foolishness written for voice and piano in guitar-friendly keys.
Jerry Silverman, 2010
9
Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management ...
This collection of articles takes up a key set of what the author regards as particularly misleading fads and fashions -- developments that produce a startling degree of foolishness in contemporary discussions of how to organize, deliver, ...
Theodore R. Marmor, 2007
10
Rachel Yoder: Just Plain Foolishness
Welcome back to Lancaster County, and join lovable and outrageously rambunctious eleven-year-old Rachel Yoder, as she learns an important lesson about contentment.
Wanda E. Brunstetter, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOLISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foolishness is used in the context of the following news items.
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COP will not accept foolishness | The Trinidad Guardian Newspaper
He said the COP always had a response for anything that happened and would not “accept foolishness.” He said the country would see the ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Small fireworks may be legal, but they require care - The Post Star
These unfortunate events were caused by some combination of misunderstanding, alcohol consumption and foolishness. They also involved ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jul 15»
3
NAACP leader: Let's tackle criminal justice disparities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” For many blacks, living in Iowa is a ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
4
2015 Capital Fringe Review: 'Tomato Beard' - DCMetroTheaterArts
... people (including the cast last night at the Atlas Performing Arts Center) that this celebration of foolishness should do fine at the Festival. «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
5
Commentary | Does black privilege really exist? - The Courier-Journal
Or maybe I'm wrong and we really are so privileged that we can waste our time fretting about foolishness. Dr. Ricky L. Jones is chair of the ... «The Courier-Journal, Jul 15»
6
Franklyn: No fair play | Barbados Today
He can tell them stop this foolishness.” Franklyn added that the NUPW, which has served notice of plans to escalate industrial action, and the ... «Barbados Today, Jul 15»
7
England vs Australia, Ashes 2015 - live: Warner falls just before …
... offspinner but rather that the sight of his cheeky little face will provoke Warner into a foolishness. Both batsmen cautious. Here's the scorecard ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
City Ink: Augusta commissioners all talk this week on rain tax …
GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD FOR MORE FOOLISHNESS: Fire trucks aren't the only red things folks are talking about in Augusta. «The Augusta Chronicle, Jul 15»
9
Letter: Satire far-reaching / LJWorld.com
The negative view of Kansas politics stretches back to our goat gland governor, John Brinkley. The adverse look was given more foolishness to ... «Lawrence Journal World, Jul 15»
10
Does The Old Testament Contradict The New Testament? - Patheos
That's why “the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing” (1st Cor 1:18). Anyone that says that the Old Testament ... «Patheos, Jul 15»

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