Home › Words › D › desipiencedesipience/dɪˈsɪpɪəns/desipience means silliness, folly.desipience is pronounced /dɪˈsɪpɪəns/.EtymologyFrom Latin desipientia, from desipere (“to be foolish”).nounsilliness, follye.g.“Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.” — 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.insipience 81% match — stupidity; folly vs desipience →desipient 73% match — foolish; silly vs desipience →foolishment 68% match — foolish behavior; folly vs desipience →silliness 66% match — That which is perceived as silly or frivolous. vs desipience →derpage 66% match — foolishness vs desipience →bêtise 66% match — silliness, folly, stupidity vs desipience →disensanity 65% match — insanity; folly vs desipience →insipient 65% match — foolish; lacking wisdom; stupid vs desipience →