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Dalliance vs Folly - What's the difference?

dalliance | folly |

As nouns the difference between dalliance and folly

is that dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play while folly is .

dalliance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Playful flirtation; amorous play.
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    • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
  • A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
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  • A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

    • Synonyms

    * (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affair

    Related terms

    * dallier * dally * dallying

    folly

    English

    Noun

    (follies)
  • .
    • This is a war of folly .
  • Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
    • The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
  • A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
    • A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly .
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    • Related terms

    * fool * foolery * foolish