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FOOL'S PARADISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fool's paradise mean?
• FOOL'S PARADISE (noun)
The noun FOOL'S PARADISE has 1 sense:
1. an illusory state of wellbeing
Familiarity information: FOOL'S PARADISE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An illusory state of wellbeing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fool's paradise" is a kind of...):
eudaemonia; eudaimonia; upbeat; welfare; well-being; wellbeing (a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous)
Context examples
Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles—fevered with delusive bliss one hour—suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next—or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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