'Whimsy' definitions:
Definition of 'whimsy'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
noun
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]
Definition of 'Whimsy'
From: GCIDE
- Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n. A whimsey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Whimsy'
From: GCIDE
- Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. Whimseysor Whimsies. [See Whim.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mining) A whim. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'whimsy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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