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Folly vs Craze - What's the difference?

folly | craze |

As nouns the difference between folly and craze

is that folly is while craze is craziness; insanity.

As a verb craze is

to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

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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  • craze

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Craziness; insanity.
  • A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
  • Verb

    (craz)
  • To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • * Milton
  • Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
  • To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • * Tillotson
  • any man that is crazed and out of his wits
  • * Shakespeare
  • Grief hath crazed my wits.
  • To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • * Keats
  • She would weep and he would craze .
  • (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • * Milton
  • God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.
  • (intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.