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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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.

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