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”
notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
whimsy (usually uncountable, plural whimsies)
A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
whimsy (third-person singular simple present whimsies, present participle whimsying, simple past and past participle whimsied)
(transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.
Source: Wiktionary
Whim"sey, Whimsy, n.; pl. Whimseys or Whimsies. Etym: [See Whim.]
1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. Bancroft.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A whim.
Whim"sy, n.
Definition: A whimsey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
