whimsy

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    whimsey, whim, notion,
  • (n) 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
    arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsicality, capriciousness, whimsey,

Synonyms

whimsey whim notion arbitrariness flightiness whimsicality capriciousness

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