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foolability

foolability noun: the quality of being foolable.

Noun

foolability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being foolable.
    • Yet for such crucial purposes as bringing about a war or exploiting an economic situation, this was manifestly a quite disastrous degree of foolability.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The London Conference: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; the Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American...

Origin of foolability

From fool + -ability.

Questions about foolability

What does foolability mean?
Foolability means the quality of being foolable.
What part of speech is foolability?
Foolability is a noun.

Words near foolability in the dictionary

  1. fool-hearted
  2. fool-heartedly
  3. fool-heartedness
  4. fool-saint
  5. fool-saints
  6. foolability
  7. foolable
  8. Foolah
  9. Foolahs
  10. fooldom
  11. foole

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