Usually means: Capricious, playful expression of imagination.
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  1. whimsey: Merriam-Webster
  2. whimsey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whimsey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whimsey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whimsey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whimsey, whimsey: Wordnik
  7. whimsey: Wiktionary
  8. whimsey: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. whimsey: Dictionary.com
  10. Whimsey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. whimsey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. whimsey: Rhymezone
  13. Whimsey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. whimsey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. whimsey: FreeDictionary.org
  16. whimsey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. whimsey: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of whimsy [A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.]

Similar:
whim, whimsicality, flightiness, capriciousness, arbitrariness, notion, fegary, goosey, whacko, wit-wanton, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Adjectives:
mere, such, pure, sectarian, idle, ridiculous, new, sudden, odd, philosophical, sheer

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Similar:
whim, whimsicality, flightiness, capriciousness, arbitrariness, notion, fegary, goosey, whacko, wit-wanton, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Adjectives:
mere, such, pure, sectarian, idle, ridiculous, new, sudden, odd, philosophical, sheer



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