unwisdom

[ uhn-wiz-duhm ]

noun

1. lack of wisdom; folly; rashness; recklessness:

   an act of unwisdom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unwisdom¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English unwīsdōm; un- ¹, wisdom

Example Sentences

Those two facts should endow any caring individual with a critical skepticism of the wisdom, or unwisdom, of America’s founders in establishing the Electoral College in the first place.

From Salon

As a result, civil war in Europe continued with World War II, even as Japan showed that Asiatic powers could similarly embrace and deploy the unwisdom of unchecked militarism and war.

From Salon

But recent experience, especially the pandemic, has proved the unwisdom of Wilson’s vision.

From Washington Times

“The current view is that liberals have a whole set of statistics that theoretically might be right, but it’s not where human beings are,” Gingrich said two weeks before the election, and a lot of people took the results as confirmation of this foundational Republican unwisdom.

From Slate

In recent years, experts have tried many ways to convince vaccine-refusers the unwisdom of their choice.

From Washington Post