Folly is a noun that means "foolish or crazy behavior." It would be folly to spend all night playing video games when you have a difficult exam the next day.
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Noun
foolish or senseless behavior
Noun
a stupid mistake
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the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
Noun
the quality of being rash and foolish
n.
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity,
weakness, or derangement of mind.
n.
A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure;
weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
n.
Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman,
wantonness.
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The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
Folly
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill.3.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel.
When lovely woman stoops to folly.4.
It is called this man's or that man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years.
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Usage Examples
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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Other Usage ExamplesIs there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
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