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Indiscretion vs Unwisdom - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between indiscretion and unwisdom

is that indiscretion is the quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence; rashness while unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.

indiscretion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence; rashness.
  • An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
  • A brief sexual liaison.

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    unwisdom

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.
  • * Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute -
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 151:
    • Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.