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English noun: whimsey | |||
| 1. | whimsey (cognition) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | notion, whim, whimsy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | idea, thought | ||
| 2. | whimsey (attribute) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | ||
| Samples | I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory. | ||
| Synonyms | arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | irresponsibility, irresponsibleness | ||
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