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desipience

/dɪˈsɪpɪəns/

desipience noun: silliness, folly.

Noun

desipience (usually uncountable, plural desipiences)

  1. (usually) silliness, folly
    • Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.1965, John Fowles, The Magus

desipience meaning in Tamil and Bengali

desipience in Tamil

சிறுபிள்ளைத்தனம்

desipience in Bengali

বোকামি, মূর্খতা

Forms of desipience

pluraldesipiences

Origin of desipience

From Latin desipientia, from desipere (“to be foolish”).

Questions about desipience

What does desipience mean?
Desipience means silliness, folly.
What is desipience in Tamil?
Desipience in Tamil is சிறுபிள்ளைத்தனம். See Desipience meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is desipience?
Desipience is a noun.
How do you pronounce desipience?
Desipience is pronounced /dɪˈsɪpɪəns/.
What is the plural of desipience?
The plural of desipience is desipiences.

Words near desipience in the dictionary

  1. desinusoid
  2. desinusoided
  3. desinusoiding
  4. desiodase
  5. desiodases
  6. desipience
  7. desipiences
  8. desipient
  9. desipramine
  10. desipramines
  11. Desir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desipience (page history and authors); desipience (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); desipience (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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