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zaniness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of zaniness

lack of good sense or judgment

what zaniness possessed you to take a mental health day when you knew that the head honcho would be visiting?

Synonyms of zaniness

absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, unwisdom, wackiness, witlessness

Words Related to zaniness

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, gormlessness [chiefly British], idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness

Near Antonyms of zaniness

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience

Antonyms of zaniness

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom

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