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. 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.

3. President Barack Obama:

   We do not have time for this kind of silliness, we've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do.

4. Marco Rubio:

   We have an incredible decision to make, not just about the direction of America but the identity of our party and the conservative movement. The time for games is over, i know you had a lot of choices to make, but now it's time to narrow it down and I'm asking you to get behind me ... so we can bring an end to this silliness, this looniness.

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.