Usually means: Behavior resembling a foolish jester.
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  1. clownishness: Merriam-Webster
  2. clownishness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clownishness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clownishness: Wordnik
  5. clownishness: Wiktionary
  6. Clownishness, clownishness: Dictionary.com
  7. Clownishness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. clownishness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Clownishness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. clownishness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Clownishness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clownishness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  the state of being clownish

Similar:
cloddishness, cartoonishness, cliquishness, clottishness, comicality, comicalness, clumsies, cloddiness, dorkiness, corniness, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, dignity, sobriety

Types:
buffoonery, foolery, jocularity, jocoseness, jollity, levity, ridiculousness, more...

Adjectives:
conscious, assumed, mere, general, pedantic, own, great, deliberate, usual, pathetic, idiotic

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Similar:
cloddishness, cartoonishness, cliquishness, clottishness, comicality, comicalness, clumsies, cloddiness, dorkiness, corniness, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, dignity, sobriety

Types:
buffoonery, foolery, jocularity, jocoseness, jollity, levity, ridiculousness, more...

Adjectives:
conscious, assumed, mere, general, pedantic, own, great, deliberate, usual, pathetic, idiotic



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