whimsicality
121peculiarity — n 1. idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, eccentricity, mannerism, quirk, twist, kink, hobby horse; quip, crotchet, whim, caprice, flight of fancy; aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, deviation, anomaly, Rare. anomalism. 2. oddity, curiosity, rarity;… …
122slipperiness — n 1. oiliness, lubricity, greasiness, slitheriness; smoothness, sleekness, glassiness, glossiness, iciness; soapiness, waxiness, butteriness, unctuousness; sliminess, mucosity. 2. shiftiness, trickiness, deceitfulness; foxiness, craftiness,… …
123uncertainty — n 1. doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, dubiety, skepticism; unsureness, hesitancy, hesitation; caution, wariness, tentativeness; suspicion, suspiciousness, diffidence, misgiving, distrust, mistrust. 2. guess, piece of guesswork; borderline case,… …
124vacillation — n 1. indecision, indecisiveness, shillyshally, shilly shallying, tergiversation, fence sitting, fence straddling; irresolution, irresoluteness, uncertainty, incertitude, unsureness, infirmity of purpose, unsettledness, ambivalence, double… …
125volatility — n 1. vaporability, vaporizability, evap orability; evaporableness, vaporousness, vaporiness, vaporosity; gaseousness. 2. explosiveness, fieriness, tension. 3. flightiness, changefulness, capriciousness, whimsicality, impulsiveness, fickleness,… …
126whim — n 1. notion, fancy, chimera, crank, caprice, crotchet, Archaic. maggot; weird idea, crazy notion, Sl. kooky notion; impulse, Inf. brain wave, Inf. brainstorm, inspiration, great idea; desire, yearning, wish, dream; craze, obsession, passion;… …
127caprice — ca•price [[t]kəˈpris[/t]] n. 1) a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one s mind or of the weather; vagary 2) a tendency to change one s mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness 3) mad capriccio 1) • Etymology:… …
128Sterne, Laurence — (1713 1768) Novelist, s. of an officer in the army, and the great grandson of an Archbishop of York, was b. at Clonmel, where his father s regiment happened to be stationed, and passed part of his boyhood in Ireland. At the age of 10 he was… …
