Folly vs Foolhardiness - What's the difference?
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Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
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Folly is a related term of foolhardiness.
As nouns the difference between folly and foolhardiness
is that folly is while foolhardiness is the quality of being foolhardy.folly
English
Noun
(follies)- This is a war of folly .
- The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly .