fault vs folly

fault and folly both are nouns.

fault is a verb but folly is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
folly	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folly is a hyponym of fault; that is, folly is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fault:

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
folly: a stupid mistake

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	folly (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	foolish or senseless behavior
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	a stupid mistake
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection	the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
responsibility for a bad situation or event	the quality of being rash and foolish
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an imperfection in an object or machine

fault (verb)	folly (verb)
put or pin the blame on

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