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Unwisdom vs Puerility - What's the difference?

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Unwisdom is a related term of puerility.


As nouns the difference between unwisdom and puerility

is that unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity while puerility is the state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.

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.

    puerility

    English

    Noun

  • The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
  • That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
  • See also

    * puerilism