whimsy English

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What does whimsy mean?

Definitions in simple English

whimsy Noun

— A whimsy is a playful and unpredictable idea or behaviour.

whimsy

— noun (= notion) 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

— noun (= flightiness, whimsicality) 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

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whim

whimsey

caprice

capriciousness

vagary

fancy

whimsicality

quirk

notion

flightiness

arbitrariness

whimsicalness

weirdness

uneven temper

tetchiness

temper

quizzicalness

quaintness

oddity

moody

moodiness

megrim

maggot

looseness

laxity

kink

indiscretion

inconsistency

freak

fickle

feeling

fantasy

crotchetiness

crankiness

bubble

bizarreness