What is another word for whimsy?

Pronunciation: [wˈɪmzi] (IPA)

The word whimsy is often associated with a sense of playfulness, spontaneity and fancifulness. However, there are several other terms that can be used to convey a similar meaning. For instance, the word caprice refers to sudden and unpredictable changes in mood or behavior. The word quirk also implies an unexpected or peculiar aspect of a person or thing. The term eccentricity suggests a deviation from the norm or conventional behavior. Another synonym for whimsy is fantasy, which connotes imaginative and otherworldly qualities. Altogether, these various terms offer a range of ways to express vibrant and unconventional perspectives and qualities.

What are the hypernyms for Whimsy?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Whimsy

You get the whimsy of it?
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Nearly every great fact is like a well-balanced kite; it has for its tail a whimsy.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
"Here," said I to myself, "if there be any truth in Messer Plato's theory of affinities, here is a living proof of the Grecian whimsy.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy

Famous quotes with Whimsy

  • In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
    Danny DeVito
  • Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
    Kahlil Gibran
  • This poet is now, most of the time, an elder statesman like Baruch or Smuts, full of complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy. But of course there was always a good deal of this in the official rôle that Frost created for himself; one imagines Yeats saying about Frost, as Sarah Bernhardt said about Nijinsky: “I fear, I greatly fear, that I have just seen the greatest actor in the world.” Sometimes it is this public figure, this official rôle — the Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity — that writes the poems, and not the poet himself; and then one gets a self-made man’s political editorials, full of cracker-box philosophizing, almanac joke-cracking — of a snake-oil salesman’s mysticism; one gets the public figure’s relishing consciousness of himself, an astonishing constriction of imagination and sympathy; one gets sentimentality and whimsicality; an arch complacency, a complacent archness; and one gets Homely Wisdom till the cows come home.
    Randall Jarrell
  • His example reduces most modern verse to footling whimsy.
    R. S. Thomas

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