Whimsy

4 definitions found

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

  Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or
     {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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
     A whimsey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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