Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dwaasheid
- Amharic: folly
- Arabic: حماقة
- Azerbaijani: axmaqlıq
- Bashkir: иҫәрләнергә
- Belarusian: глупства
- Bulgarian: глупост
- Bengali: মূর্খতা
- Bosnian: glupost
- Catalan: la bogeria
- Cebuano: binuang
- Czech: hloupost
- Welsh: ffolineb
- Danish: folly
- German: Torheit
- Greek: τρέλα
- Esperanto: malsaĝeco
- Spanish: la locura
- Estonian: rumalus
- Basque: zentzugabekeria
- Persian: حماقت
- Finnish: hulluutta
- French: la folie
- Irish: baois
- Scottish Gaelic: folly
- Galician: tolemia
- Gujarati: મૂર્ખાઈ
- Hebrew: האיוולת
- Hindi: मूर्खता
- Croatian: glupost
- Haitian: foli
- Hungarian: ostobaság
- Armenian: հիմարություն է
- Indonesian: kebodohan
- Icelandic: heimska
- Italian: follia
- Japanese: folly
- Javanese: kadunungan kawicaksanan
- Georgian: სისულელე
- Kazakh: глупость
- Khmer: ល្ងីល្ងើ
- Kannada: ಮೂರ್ಖತನ
- Korean: 리석
- Kyrgyz: глупость
- Latin: stultitia
- Luxembourgish: Torheit
- Lao: ພະຍາຍາມ
- Lithuanian: kvailystė
- Latvian: neprāts
- Malagasy: hadalana
- Mari: аҥыралык
- Maori: wairangi
- Macedonian: глупост
- Malayalam: വിഡ്ഢിത്തമാണ്
- Mongolian: мунхаглал
- Marathi: मूर्ख
- Hill Mari: ораде
- Malay: kebodohan
- Maltese: folly
- Burmese: သည်းခံခြင်းကို
- Nepali: folly
- Dutch: dwaasheid
- Norwegian: folly
- Punjabi: ਮੂਰਖਤਾ
- Papiamento: e lokura
- Polish: głupota
- Portuguese: loucura
- Romanian: nebunia
- Russian: глупость
- Sinhalese: මෝඩ කම
- Slovak: hlúposť
- Slovenian: norost
- Albanian: budallallëkut
- Serbian: глупост
- Sundanese: folly
- Swedish: dårskap
- Swahili: upumbavu
- Tamil: மடத்தனம்
- Telugu: మూర్ఖత్వం
- Tajik: глупость
- Thai: ความเขลา
- Tagalog: kahangalan
- Turkish: çılgınlık
- Tatar: глупость
- Udmurt: капчилыкенызы
- Ukrainian: дурість
- Urdu: حماقت
- Uzbek: ahmoqlik
- Vietnamese: sự điên rồ
- Xhosa: folly
- Yiddish: נאַרישקייַט
- Chinese: 愚蠢
Synonyms, close and similar words for folly
- extravagance
- whim
- vagary
- indulgence
- insanity
- lunacy
- madness
- craziness
- nuttiness
- stupidity
- foolishness
- foolish act
- unwisdom
- asininity
- foolery
- tomfoolery
- zaniness
- recklessness
- heedlessness
- temerity
- rashness
- foolhardiness
- thoughtlessness
- imprudence
- desperation
- nonsense
- rubbish
- humbug
- baloney
- flapdoodle
- trash
- hogwash
- blah
- bunk
- balderdash
- tosh
- poppycock
- silly
- ineptitude
- inanity
- nuts
- idiocy
- imbecility
- foolish
- absurdity
- senselessness
- fatuity
- poor judgement
- shortsightedness
- improvidence
- silliness
- unreason
- piffle