Unwisdom vs Lunacy - What's the difference?
unwisdom | lunacy | Related terms |
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:
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
# a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
# insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
Something deeply misguided.
As nouns the difference between unwisdom and lunacy
is that unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity while lunacy is the state of being mad, insanity.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.
