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Buffoonery vs Clowning - What's the difference?

buffoonery | clowning |

As nouns the difference between buffoonery and clowning

is that buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon while clowning is clownish behaviour.

As a verb clowning is

present participle of lang=en.

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 .

    clowning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • clownish behaviour
  • * 1961 , Lucille Iremonger, And his charming lady (page 205)
    • The press took seriously all Shaw's provocative ambiguities and clownings , and Lady Astor was identified with his most outrageous actions and statements.