Ridiculousness vs Unwisdom - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being ridiculous.
(countable) The result of being ridiculous.
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:
Ridiculousness is a related term of unwisdom.
As nouns the difference between ridiculousness and unwisdom
is that ridiculousness is (uncountable) the characteristic of being ridiculous while unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.ridiculousness
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* ridiculosity (less common)unwisdom
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- 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.