Synonyms for silliness
silli·ness

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1. silliness

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

   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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Folly
   • Frivolity

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1. sillinessnoun

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

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1. Leslie Miklosy:

   Past all the silliness of youth -- with its insecurities, cheap thrills, and ill-fitting identities -- lies the snug comfort of age.

2. Ted Cruz:

   This issue is largely silliness stirred up by the media, nobody reasonably thinks Chris Christie is opposed to vaccinating kids other than a bunch of reporters who want to write headlines.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   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.

4. 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.

5. 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.