foolishness vs madness

foolishness and madness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, foolishness and madness are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of foolishness include craziness, folly.

foolishness (noun)	madness (noun)
a stupid mistake	unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
the trait of acting stupidly or rashly	the quality of being rash and foolish
the quality of being rash and foolish	a feeling of intense anger
	obsolete terms for legal insanity
	an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain