foolishness

English

From Middle English folishnesse, follissnesse, equivalent to foolish +‎ -ness.

foolishness (countable and uncountable, plural foolishnesses)

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
Old English: unġesċēadwisnes 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)

thing or event that is foolish

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