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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being silly; foolishness; senselessness; weakness of understanding; extreme simplicity; absurd or contemptible folly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being silly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.
  • noun countable An act that is silly; a result of being silly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an impulsive scatterbrained manner
  • noun a ludicrous folly

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silly +‎ -ness

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