Difference between Folly and Foolery

FOLLY vs FOOLERY: NOUN

The trait of acting stupidly or rashly
The quality of being rash and foolish
A stupid mistake
Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.
An act or instance of foolishness.
A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.
An elaborate theatrical revue consisting of music, dance, and skits.
A structure, such as a pavilion in a garden, that is chiefly decorative rather than practical in purpose.
The character or conduct of a fool; the state of being foolish; weakness of judgment or character, or actions which spring from it; want of understanding; weak or light-minded conduct.
Something regard for or attention to which is foolish.
Specifically Conduct morally bad; wickedness; wantonness.
A costly structure or other undertaking left unfinished for want of means, too expensive to be properly maintained, built in a very ill-chosen place, or the like; an enterprise that exhausts or ruins the projector.
Synonyms Nonsense, foolishness, senselessness, ridiculousness, extravagance, indiscretion, imbecility. See list under absurdity.
Foolish or senseless behavior
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
Foolishness.
The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.

Foolish behaviour or speech.
An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
A foolish belief or practice; anything based on fatuity.
A foolish performance; a farcical exhibition; a mummery; a farce.
An act of folly; a trifling or senseless action.
The habit of acting foolishly; habitual folly; attention to trifles.
Foolish behavior or speech.
Foolish or senseless behavior
An instance of foolish behavior or speech; a jest.

Ineptitude, Madness, Irrationality, Lunacy, Absurdity, Idiocy, Unwiseness, Betise, Tomfoolery, Craziness, Indulgence, Foolery, Imbecility, Stupidity, Foolishness

Imbecility, Fatuity, Hijinks, Inanity, Frivolity, Lunacy, Stupidity, Idiocy, Jape, Foolishness, Silliness, Buffoonery, Indulgence, Folly, Tomfoolery

Stupid, Blunder, Extravagance, Ineptitude, Madness, Irrationality, Lunacy, Absurdity, Idiocy, Tomfoolery, Indulgence, Foolery, Imbecility, Stupidity, Foolishness

Imbecility, Fatuity, Hijinks, Inanity, Frivolity, Lunacy, Stupidity, Idiocy, Jape, Foolishness, Silliness, Buffoonery, Indulgence, Folly, Tomfoolery

Student Senate reached the height of its folly.
CARTA to Double Service Frequency on Folly Rd.
The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams.
Let me try and define folly for you.
Are all the gates in this book folly?
The first instructs the reader to answer a fool in folly, while the second instructs the reader answer a fool in folly.
Stone's Folly, home of Bethel Bible College A bit of review: 1901 Stone's Folly and Charles Parham was where it all started.
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
This newly furnished condo is a short walk to downtown Folly and our famous wooden Folly Beach Pier.
Proceeding from folly, or marked with folly; silly; vain; trifling.

Yet as Freud argued in Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, there is serious meaning to all foolery, including that of the riddles.
A music festival fundraiser today at Tom Foolery's Restaurant in Middletown aims to raise $5,000 to $10,000.
And what they have read in the noozwypers, and I am not going to participate in that form of foolery.
But we now have to ask ourselves: do we want the same tom foolery again in the white house?.
Meena: Now that Tom Foolery has gone, perhaps Laissez Fayre will turn its attention from comedy to song and dance once again.
Do you see why this foolery isn't belladonna crucial more consequently if is that to start a flame war here.
Kiryl: Perhaps we could postpone visitation to Canalot, and Tom Foolery could accompany us around world.
They slowed the legislative process, and were the ones engaging in political tom-foolery.
Zere is no one good enough to follow Tom Foolery.
Tom Foolery: Why did the guard come to Ballymoral?