foolery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun foolish or senseless behavior
    indulgence; craziness; tomfoolery; folly; lunacy.

WordNet

Fool"er*y noun
Wordforms
plural Fooleries
Definitions
  1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
    Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. Shak.
  2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
    That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

Webster 1913