unwisdoms

Noun

unwisdom (countable and uncountable, plural unwisdoms)

1. (uncountable) Lack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly, foolishness.
   • And all we conſyderynge her gracyous and charytable mynde, ſo unyuerſally, and conſyderyng the redyneſs of mercy and pyte in our Savyour Jheſu, may ſay, by lamentable complaynt of our unwyſedome, unto hym. Ah Domine! ſi fuiſſes hic—Ah my Lorde! yf thou had ben preſente, […]1509 (date delivered), Johan [i.e., John] Fisher, “A Mornynge Remembrance, had at the Moneth Minde of the Noble Prynces Margarete Countesse of Richmonde and Darbye, Moder unto Kynge Henry the...

   Synonyms:

   ignorance, stupidity

   Antonyms:

   wisdom, acuity, astuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, discrimination, gumption, insight, nous, penetration

2. An instance of a lack of wisdom; a foolish act.
   • For hereby are fostered, fed into gigantic bulk, all manner of Unwisdoms, poison-fruits; till, as we way, the life-tree everywhere is made a upas-tree, deadly Unwisdom overshadowing all things; […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Aristocracy of Talent”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 30
3. (rare) A foolish or unwise being or force.
   • [W]hat great thing ever happened in this world, a world understood always to be made and governed by a Providence and Wisdom, not by an Unwisdom, without meaning somewhat?1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Rights and Mights”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, page 42