Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for foolishness
The synonym for foolishness recorded in this bank is madness, in the sense "the quality of being rash and foolish". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for foolishness
- madnessnoun, in the sense "the quality of being rash and foolish"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day foolishness is audited in a second meaning.
the quality of being rash and foolish
Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness.
The true synonym
madness
Same sentence, swapped: Adjusting to an insane society is total madness.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for foolishness in the sentence quoted.
- dullness
- slowness
- emptiness
Where foolishness turns up in the game
foolishness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play foolishness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so foolishness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company foolishness keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. foolishness carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.