Talk:whimsy

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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, 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, whimsey, capriciousness]

Adjective?

Chambers 1908 says it's also an adjective, meaning whimsical. I'm not familiar with this and assume it's archaic. Equinox ◑ 14:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)