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Meanings of whimsicality in English

Catalan
arbitrareitat
Spanish
arbitrariedad

The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.

arbitrareitat
Catalan
caprici
Spanish
sagacidad

The trait of behaving like an imp.

caprici
Usage of whimsicality in English
1
The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
2
There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
Constance Dunlap
3
Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
Young Lives
4
There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
Broken Circle
5
For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
A Little Journey in the World
6
The whimsicality, the childishness of it all, gave it a charm.
A Man and a Woman
7
Depressed and intent as he was, the whimsicality of the situation struck him.
Their Pilgrimage
8
Here is a whimsicality you would not find, I think, among another people.
Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
9
There was a whimsicality about Gower's way of taking this that pleased MacRae.
Poor Man's Rock
10
The local example of the whimsicality of Nature owes its excellence to absolute purity.
Tropic Days
11
He complains of the wine given him at a dinner-party with a finished whimsicality:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
12
Behind the whimsicality there was something earnest in his appeal.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
13
He was tall and humorous, with hornedrimmed glasses and an air of attractive whimsicality.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
14
Delighting in saying words that would hurt; delighting in his own whimsicality that would amuse.
If Winter Comes
15
Thus a strange wilfulness and whimsicality has wrought itself into the substance of his mind.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
16
For one source of her charm lay in the gay, childlike whimsicality of her imagination.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t...
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