Vagary \Va*ga"ry\ (v[.a]*g[=a]"r[y^] or v[a^]g"[.a]*r[-e]), n.;
pl. Vagaries (v[.a]*g[=a]"r[i^]z or v[a^]g"[.a]*r[-e]z).
[L. vagari to stroll about. See Vague.]
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1. A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]
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2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful
freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a
child." --Spectator.
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They changed their minds,
Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vagary
n : an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a
situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of
the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of
the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for
many years"
WordNet (r) 2.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "vagary":
aberration, bee, boutade, brainstorm, capriccio, caprice,
circuitousness, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crosswiseness,
crotchet, daydream, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance,
deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation,
divergence, dream, excursion, fad, fancy, fantastic notion,
fantasy, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration,
harebrained idea, humor, indirection, indirectness, kink, maggot,
megrim, nonconformity, notion, obliqueness, obliquity,
passing fancy, quirk, skewness, squint, toy, transverseness, whim,
whim-wham, whimsy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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