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whimsey

noun
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As a noun, whimsey means an odd or fanciful or capricious idea.

Meanings of whimsey

2 meanings

noun

  1. An odd or fanciful or capricious idea

    “the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories”

    “he had a whimsy about flying to the moon”

    “whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it”

    Similar: notion, whim, whimsy

  2. The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

    “I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory”

    Similar: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, capriciousness

Alternative spelling of whimsy

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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noun: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
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noun: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or c…
flightinessarbitrarinesswhimsicalitywhimsycapriciousness

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