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Imprudence vs Ridiculousness - What's the difference?

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In uncountable terms the difference between imprudence and ridiculousness

is that imprudence is the quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness while ridiculousness is the characteristic of being ridiculous.

In countable terms the difference between imprudence and ridiculousness

is that imprudence is an imprudent act while ridiculousness is the result of being ridiculous.

imprudence

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.
  • (countable) An imprudent act.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1906 – 1921 , author= , title= , volume=1 , chapter=Encounter , passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}

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    ridiculousness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The characteristic of being ridiculous.
  • (countable) The result of being ridiculous.
  • Synonyms

    * ridiculosity (less common)