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Asininity vs Buffoonery - What's the difference?

asininity | buffoonery |

As nouns the difference between asininity and buffoonery

is that asininity is the quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity while buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.

asininity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity
  • (countable) An asinine remark, behaviour, etc.

    • buffoonery

    English

    Noun

    (buffooneries)
  • foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
  • * 1693 : William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
    • Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
  • * 1814 : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    • One could not expect anybody to take such a part. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
  • * before 1891 : P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576]
    • The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries .