whimsicality
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zɪˈkæl
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whimsical (ˈwɪmzɪkəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | spontaneously fanciful or playful |
| 2. | given to whims; capricious |
| 3. | quaint, unusual, or fantastic |
| whimsicality | |
| —n | |
| 'whimsically | |
| —adv | |
| 'whimsicalness | |
| —n | |
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Whimsicality
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Despite the whimsicality of the parade, the mood inside some of the city's churches was more somber.
In the happy years before his whimsicality turned to bitterness.
The opening pages, for example, are rambling to the point of whimsicality.
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