How to pronounce“foolishness”in English
to really understand what he meant by stupidity because it's different to how a lot of us use the word stupid in our everyday lexicon. So what is stupidity? Well it is not the same as foolishness.
Foolishness is when you do something silly, reckless, imprudent. For example, if you put diesel into a petrol car, or I, for example, put washing up liquid in the washing machine and it
caused a disaster. Or I remember at my son's last birthday party, he was gifted a plastic golf set.
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Definitions of “foolishness”
The state of being foolish.
“On page 297 [“Queens Not Balled Thru Robbers”], that quotation from a foreign bee-paper, about the foolishness of thinking that robber-bees ball a queen, is probably all right in the main. Robbers are indeed there for honey—not for reginacide—but perchance no one interferes, and after awhile the honey is gone, and the hive is filled with a miscellaneous crowd largely new comers, who are like a city mob, “the more part know not wherefore they are come together.””
A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
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