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Whimsicality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The quality or state of being whimsical.

n. A whimsical idea or its expression; a caprice.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the state of being whimsical.

n. something whimsical; a caprice.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or character of being whimsical; whimsicalness.

n. Oddity; strangeness; fantasticalness.

n. Pl. whimsicalities (-tiz). That which exhibits whimsical or fanciful qualities; a whimsical thought, saying, or action.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

n. the trait of behaving like an imp

Word Usage

"The reason that so many things don't have that kind of whimsicality to them, especially in movies or in any kind of artwork or writing, is because it's so damn hard to find that."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

irresponsibility irresponsibleness playfulness fun

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

whimsicalness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

oddness frivolousness superstitiousness implausibility self-direction