Associations to the word «Whimsy»

Wiktionary

WHIMSY, noun. A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
WHIMSY, noun. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
WHIMSY, noun. (mining) A whim.
WHIMSY, verb. (transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

Dictionary definition

WHIMSY, noun. 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".
WHIMSY, noun. 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".

Wise words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway