'Fancifulness' definitions:
Definition of 'Fancifulness'
From: GCIDE
- Fanciful \Fan"ci*ful\, a.
- 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. [1913 Webster]
- Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
- Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild.
- Usage: Fanciful, Fantastical, Visionary. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. -- {Fan"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -{Fan"ci*ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Fancifulness'
- Fancied,
- Fancies,
- Fanciful,
- Fancifully,
- Fancy,
- Fancying,
- The fancy,
- fancy up,
- Fancy Gap,
- Fancy ball,
- Fancy fair,
- Fancy goods,
- Fancy line,
- Fancy roller,
- Fancy stocks,
- Fancy store,
- Fancy woods,
- fancy dress,
- fancy man,
- fancy woman,
- flight of fancy,
- passing fancy,
- Fancy Gap, VA,
- Fancy-free,
- Fancy-sick,
- fancied up gussied gussied up tricked out,
- fancy-dress ball,
- footloose and fancy-free