foolery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fool=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

foolery, n. 

•  The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.  [1913 Webster]

  "Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
  As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote."  [1913 Webster]
•  An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.  [1913 Webster]

  "That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foolery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 foolish behaviour.
2 a foolish act.

THESAURUS

foolery

Parthian shot, asininity, back answer, banter, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, caustic remark, clownishness, comeback, crack, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cut, cutting remark, daffiness, desipience, dig, dump, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, fleer, flout, folly, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gibe, gibing retort, giddiness, goofiness, harlequinade, horseplay, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jab, jape, jeer, jest, leg-pull, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mock, monkeyshines, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, parting shot, put-down, put-on, queerness, quip, rude reproach, sappiness, scoff, screwiness, scurrility, senselessness, shenanigans, short answer, silliness, slam, slap, stupidity, swipe, taunt, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, twit, verbal thrust, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism