zanyism
21thoughtlessness — Synonyms and related words: abandon, absentmindedness, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, callowness, caprice, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, childishness, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness,… …
22triviality — Synonyms and related words: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, aimlessness, asininity, bagatelle, baseness, battiness, bauble, bean, bibelot, big deal, bit, bootlessness, brainlessness, brass farthing, buffoonery, button,… …
23drollery — n jest, joke, witticism, waggery; mummery, buffoonery, zanyism, farce, absurdity, burlesque; humor, wit, dry wit, esprit; prank, tomfoolery, shenanigan, monkeyshine …
24folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
25shenanigan — n Usu. shenanigans Informal. tomfoolery, antics, Sl. monkeyshines, Sl. monkey business; mischief, prankishness, Inf. hanky panky, Scot, and North Eng. daffing; prank, antic, caper, escapade, trick, practical joke, roguish trick, Fr. espieglerie;… …
26tomfoolery — n 1. antic, antics, caper, Inf. shenanigans, Sl. monkeyshines, Sl. monkey business; mockery, farce, mummery; mischief, prankishness, Inf. hanky panky, Scot, and North Eng. daffing; prank, escapade, trick, practical joke, roguish trick, Fr.… …
27zaniness — n clownishness, zanyism, clowning, clownery; buffoonery, buffoonism, buffoonishness, harlequinade; joking, jesting, jocosity, jocoseness, waggishness, waggery, drollery; levity, frivolity, facetiousness; silliness, childishness, prankishness;… …
28zany — /ˈzeɪni / (say zaynee) adjective (zanier, zaniest) 1. extremely comical; clownish. 2. slightly crazy; fantastic or ludicrous. –noun (plural zanies) 3. an apish buffoon; clown. 4. a silly person; simpleton. {French zani, from Italian dialect… …
