Difference between Folly and Imbecility

FOLLY vs IMBECILITY: 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.
Foolish or senseless behavior
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
Foolishness.
Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
Synonyms Nonsense, foolishness, senselessness, ridiculousness, extravagance, indiscretion, imbecility. See list under absurdity.

Retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot
A stupid mistake
Great stupidity or foolishness.
Something, such as an act or suggestion, that is considered stupid or foolish.
The condition or quality of being imbecile or impotent; weakness of either body or mind, but especially of the latter.
Synonyms Infirmity, Imbecility, etc. (see debility); feebleness, childishness, idiocy, dotage.
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

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

Absurdity, Irrationality, Depravity, Arrogance, Hubris, Mindlessness, Inanity, Dumbness, Lunacy, Fatuity, Idiocy, Betise, Foolishness, Folly, Stupidity

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

Vapidity, Absurdity, Irrationality, Depravity, Arrogance, Hubris, Mindlessness, Inanity, Dumbness, Lunacy, Fatuity, Idiocy, Foolishness, Folly, Stupidity

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.

Henry of that name, down to the drivelling imbecility of the last.
These results qualified Carrie and Emma as imbeciles, and Laughlin argued that this trait of imbecility was genetic, not environmental.
Now and then, by the imbecility of a judge or some trick of juridic science, they actually justify it.
Look at the late war, conceived in arrogance, matured in ignorance and delivered in imbecility.
Their imbecility and their dependence on consciousness betrays their imperfection.
Frankfurter government may be due to sheer imbecility and not to ingrained rascality.
Europe and exhibit to the World a sad spectacle of nationaldegradation and imbecility.
The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us.
I want to pop out of my septic imbecility.
Randolph had charged the President with duplicity and imbecility.