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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
     capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
     Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
     freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
     "Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
                                                    --Hallam.
  
     Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
          fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
          inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ly}, adv. --
          {Ca*pri"cious*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  capriciousness
       n 1: the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
            [syn: {unpredictability}]
       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}, {whimsy}, {whimsey}]

















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