foolishness

Other forms of foolishness

plural

foolishnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foolishness

What does foolishness mean?

foolishness means "the trait of acting stupidly or rashly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foolishness?

foolishness has 3 syllables: foo-lish-ness. The stress falls on "foo". In IPA it is /ˈfulɪʃnəs/.

What is another word for foolishness?

Close synonyms include folly, unwiseness, folly, craziness, madness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foolishness a common word?

foolishness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.