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UNWISENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwiseness mean? 

UNWISENESS (noun)
  The noun UNWISENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of acting stupidly or rashlyplay

  Familiarity information: UNWISENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNWISENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of acting stupidly or rashly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

folly; foolishness; unwiseness

Hypernyms ("unwiseness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unwiseness"):

indiscretion; injudiciousness (the trait of being injudicious)

absurdity; fatuity; fatuousness; silliness (a ludicrous folly)

asininity (the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness)

Derivation:

unwise (showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom)


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