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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Larry Starr:

   We may be willing to put up -- even embrace silliness as part of a holiday aesthetic -- that we wouldn't necessarily welcome in other ways.

4. 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.

5. 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.