Antonyms for sillinesssilli·ness

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1. silliness

   Antonyms:
   attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding, wisdom

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, stupidity

Matched Categories

1. • Folly
   • Frivolity

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1. absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessnoun

   a ludicrous folly

   "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

   Synonyms:
   ridiculousness, absurdity, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, giddiness

2. giddiness, sillinessnoun

   an impulsive scatterbrained manner

   Synonyms:
   fatuousness, giddiness, lightheadedness, fatuity, dizziness, vertigo, absurdity

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1. sillinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude

How to use silliness in a sentence?

1. Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5:

   The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

2. Paul Rudd:

   It's just the right amount of absurd and silliness, it was just such a cool thing to go back and re-enter that whole world... It's a great thing to revisit.

3. Betsy Brantner Smith:

   This notion that American law enforcement is somehow dangerous to students or the very innocuous slogan of ‘Back the Blue.’ In other words, we support our police that that is somehow a triggering issue or somehow a sensitive thing to say. Again, it's silliness, and it's based on a false narrative, and we, the American people, have got to continue to stand together to fight that false narrative.

4. Elise Kay:

   Our president has an unfortunate habit of distracting with tweets, it's just silliness. But the economy is not silly. It's doing great, and I am afraid if we don't re-elect the president, that will stop.

5. Doug Kass:

   That a company of such a small size can get a valuation is symptomatic of the silliness ... that develops in a period of zero interest rates.

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