Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dwaasheid
- Amharic: ሞኝነት ነው
- Arabic: حماقة
- Azerbaijani: дурью
- Bashkir: дурий
- Belarusian: дурнотай
- Bulgarian: дурью
- Bengali: মূর্খতা
- Bosnian: gluposti
- Catalan: la niciesa
- Cebuano: binuang
- Czech: hloupost
- Welsh: ffolineb
- Danish: dumhed
- German: Dummheit
- Greek: ανοησία
- Esperanto: malsaĝeco
- Spanish: locura
- Estonian: rumalus
- Basque: foolishness
- Persian: حماقت
- Finnish: typeryyttä
- French: la folie
- Irish: baoise
- Scottish Gaelic: foolishness
- Galician: tolemia
- Gujarati: નાદાની
- Hebrew: טיפשות
- Hindi: मूर्खता
- Croatian: дурью
- Haitian: bagay moun fou
- Hungarian: ostobaság
- Armenian: дурью
- Indonesian: kebodohan
- Icelandic: heimska
- Italian: follia
- Japanese: 愚かさ
- Javanese: bodho
- Georgian: სისულელე
- Kazakh: дурью
- Khmer: ចេះ
- Kannada: ಮೂರ್ಖತನ
- Korean: 어리석음
- Kyrgyz: дурью
- Latin: stultitia
- Luxembourgish: Menschlichen dummheit gelungen
- Lao: ໂງ່
- Lithuanian: kvailystė
- Latvian: muļķība
- Malagasy: fahadalana
- Mari: дурий
- Maori: wairangi
- Macedonian: безумство
- Malayalam: foolishness
- Mongolian: мунхаглал
- Marathi: foolishness
- Hill Mari: дурий
- Malay: kebodohan
- Maltese: foolishness
- Burmese: မိုက္မဲျ
- Nepali: foolishness
- Dutch: dwaasheid
- Norwegian: dårskap
- Punjabi: ਮੂਰਖਤਾ
- Papiamento: lokura
- Polish: głupotą
- Portuguese: a loucura
- Romanian: prostia
- Russian: дурью
- Sinhalese: foolishness
- Slovak: pochabosť
- Slovenian: neumnost
- Albanian: marrëzi
- Serbian: дурью
- Sundanese: foolishness
- Swedish: dumheter
- Swahili: upumbavu
- Tamil: foolishness
- Telugu: foolishness
- Tajik: дурью
- Thai: foolishness
- Tagalog: kalokohan
- Turkish: aptallık
- Tatar: дурью
- Udmurt: дурий
- Ukrainian: дуром
- Urdu: حماقت
- Uzbek: foolishness
- Vietnamese: ngu ngốc
- Xhosa: foolishness
- Yiddish: נארישקייט
- Chinese: 愚蠢
Synonyms, close and similar words for foolishness
- stupidity
- folly
- foolish act
- foolery
- insanity
- unwisdom
- ineptitude
- silly
- stupidness
- simplicity
- extravagance
- madness
- lunacy
- craziness
- zaniness
- nuts
- silliness
- inanity
- unreason
- nonsense
- flapdoodle
- hogwash
- rubbish
- trash
- rot
- twaddle
- hooey
- recklessness
- temerity
- imprudence
- foolhardiness
- heedlessness
- absurdity
- fatuity
- ridiculousness
- preposterousness
- thoughtlessness
- mindlessness
- dullness
- obtuseness
- imbecility
- dulness
- dumbness
- piffle