Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being whimsical.
- noun A whimsical idea or its expression; a caprice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
- noun Oddity; strangeness; fantasticalness.
- noun Pl. whimsicalities (-tiz). That which exhibits whimsical or fanciful qualities; a whimsical thought, saying, or action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the state of being
whimsical . - noun countable something whimsical; a
caprice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- noun the trait of behaving like an imp
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Examples
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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.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Paul was alternately drawn to and repelled by her whimsicality and wantonness.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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"I want you so bad, Miss Mason, that I don't dast to ask you now," he said, with such whimsicality and earnestness as to make her throw her head back in a frank boyish laugh.
Chapter XVII 2010
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But simply to turn loose your soul to every whimsicality, to play the fool unafraid of any possible result, why, that requires a man other than a householder and law-respecting citizen.
Local Color 2010
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"Let's go and get married," he urged, all the whimsicality of his utterance duplicated in his eyes.
Chapter XXII 2010
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The poems of "Beginning and End of the Snow" 1991 have an easy whimsicality while maintaining their seriousness:
The Pursuit of Presence Micah Mattix 2012
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She adds, "As the grittiest of the 'Trek's, our show's fabric was interwoven with stories of war, family, loyalty, deception, sexuality, and a dash of whimsicality that both took the edge off and served as a mirror."
Gregory Weinkauf: 'Star Trek' Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary in Las Vegas Gregory Weinkauf 2011
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Turning to painting in 1907, Feininger began to experiment with formal qualities, namely perspective, while infusing his genre scenes with the same intangible whimsicality evoked in his commercial work dating back to the turn of the century.
Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World Alexander Adler 2011
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Paul was alternately drawn to and repelled by her whimsicality and wantonness.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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I, who looked upon begging as a delightful whimsicality, thumbed myself over into a true son of Mrs. Grundy, burdened with all her bourgeois morality.
Confession 2010
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