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Meaning of whimsy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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