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Whimsey

noun
(pl. whimseys or whimsies)
1.
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.  Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy.  "He had a whimsy about flying to the moon" , "Whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
2.
The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.  Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy.





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"Whimsey" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he saw now had lingered in his memory, had risen up to confront him as something beautiful and desirable, many times when he never expected to see it again. For it was not logical, he held, that he should survive where so many others had perished. It was just a whimsey of Fate. And he was duly and honestly grateful that it had been permitted him to outlive many gallant comrades in the perilous service ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair


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