Reflection in the mind of real objects and phenomena in their essential features and relations.
A vague idea in which some confidence is placed.
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
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Examples for "whim "
Examples for "whim "
1 His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim .
2 Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim .
3 Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim .
4 Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim .
5 The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
1 And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
2 In daylight it probably looked like a toy: a rich man's whimsy .
3 He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
4 It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
5 What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk?
1 They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an' come this ways.
2 There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey , Capt.
3 He is a man of whimsey and temper and also mood.
4 It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey .
5 Once more the smile on her lips announced a whimsey .
1 Tilda's voice: 'The notion of Manifest Destiny is historically suspect, of course.
2 He initially held the traditional notion that economic fundamentals led market moves.
3 Systematic reviews support the notion that sleep is important for children's health.
4 You can deduce no single actual particular from the notion of it.
5 In essence, we need to unpick an essentially imperialist notion of power.
6 That being said, the notion of a game-proof test is probably impossible.
7 This review covers recent studies from our laboratory that challenge this notion .
8 Of its size I had no notion ; it might extend for miles.
9 Fundamental to the Scottish notion of history is the idea of progress.
10 The Cuban missile crisis came to disabuse us of any such notion .
11 That which is common to all particular instruments composeth the general notion .
12 We shall see that other monotheists would develop a very similar notion .
13 Or is defying the notion of gender simply too radical an idea?
14 After all, the whole 'harness the bomb's power' notion was your idea.
15 The notion had touched him then: how right they had looked together.
16 Keeping a time slot open at BUR headquarters is an excellent notion .
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