WHIMSICALITY

impishness, mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality

(noun) the trait of behaving like an imp

flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

whimsicality (countable and uncountable, plural whimsicalities)

(uncountable) the state of being whimsical.

(countable) something whimsical; a caprice.

Source: Wiktionary


Whim`si*cal"i*ty, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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