fault vs foolishness

foolishness vs fault

fault and foolishness both are nouns.

fault is a verb but foolishness is not a verb.

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

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

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
foolishness: 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, folly, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	foolishness (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a stupid mistake
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection	the quality of being rash and foolish
responsibility for a bad situation or event
(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)	foolishness (verb)
put or pin the blame on

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