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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
whimsy
    n 1: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical
         notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his
         stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon";
         "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
         [syn: notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey]
    2: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or
       caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the
       flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn:
       flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy,
       whimsey, capriciousness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. Whimseysor
   Whimsies. [See Whim.]
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   1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd
      conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." --Ray.
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            Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift.
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            Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the
            calm revelation of truth.             --Bancroft.
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   2. (Mining) A whim.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n.
   A whimsey.
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Thesaurus Results for whimsy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, apparition, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, bubble, capriccio, caprice, chimera, conceit, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, crotchetiness, delirium, deviancy, deviation, differentness, disposition, divergence, dottiness, dream, eccentricity, eidolon, erraticism, erraticness, fad, fancy, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasy, fiction, figment, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakiness, freakish inspiration, freakishness, hallucination, harebrained idea, humor, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inclination, insubstantial image, invention, irregularity, kink, maggot, make-believe, mannerism, megrim, myth, nonconformity, notion, oddity, passing fancy, peculiarity, phantasm, phantom, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, romance, sick fancy, singularity, strangeness, thick-coming fancies, thought, toy, trick, trip, twist, unconventionality, unnaturalness, vagary, vapor, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsicality, wildest dreams
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