whimsy

4 definitions found

whimsy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. Whimseysor
     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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  Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
     A whimsey.
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whimsy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, whimsy, 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, whimsy,
         whimsey, capriciousness]

whimsy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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