Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whimsy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
A whimsey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or
{Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.]
1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd
conceit. ``The whimsies of poets and painters.'' --Ray.
Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift.
Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the
calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft.
2. (Mining) A whim.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
whimsy
n 1: a whimsical idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is
associated with disaster in his stories" [syn: {notion},
{whim}, {whimsey}]
2: the trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from
reason or judgment [syn: {flightiness}, {arbitrariness}, {whimsicality},
{whimsey}, {capriciousness}]
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