Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. Whimseysor
Whimsies. [See Whim.]
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1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd
conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." --Ray.
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Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift.
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Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the
calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft.
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2. (Mining) A whim.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
A whimsey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
whimsy
n 1: 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" [syn: notion, whim, whimsey]
2: 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" [syn: flightiness,
arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsey, capriciousness]
[also: whimsiest, whimsier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "whimsy":
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, apparition, boutade, brainchild,
brainstorm, bubble, capriccio, caprice, chimera, conceit,
crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craze, crazy idea,
crotchet, crotchetiness, delirium, deviancy, deviation,
differentness, disposition, divergence, dottiness, dream,
eccentricity, eidolon, erraticism, erraticness, fad, fancy,
fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasy, fiction, figment, flimflam,
fool notion, freak, freakiness, freakish inspiration, freakishness,
hallucination, harebrained idea, humor, idea, idiocrasy,
idiosyncrasy, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination,
imagining, inclination, insubstantial image, invention,
irregularity, kink, maggot, make-believe, mannerism, megrim, myth,
nonconformity, notion, oddity, passing fancy, peculiarity,
phantasm, phantom, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, romance,
sick fancy, singularity, strangeness, thick-coming fancies,
thought, toy, trick, trip, twist, unconventionality, unnaturalness,
vagary, vapor, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsicality,
wildest dreams
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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