fancifulness

noun

Definition of fancifulnessnext
as in whimsicality

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  1. whimsy
  2. fantasy
  3. impetuosity
  4. vagary
Noun
  • Maximalists embrace eclectic collections, lots of color and texture, and a sense of whimsy.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a lot of whimsy, but the cuteness is intertwined with tough stuff, too difficult to be saccharine.
    Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of whimsy
Noun
  • Backlist sales soared, especially with romance and fantasy authors like Colleen Hoover and Sarah J. Maas.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Opening outside of the top 10 at the domestic weekend box office is the Robbie Williams fantasy music biopic Different Man, which opened in 1,291 theaters nationwide.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of fantasy
Noun
  • Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield.
    Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
  • Meeting his current expedition partner, Børge Ousland, required another stroke of youthful impetuosity.
    Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2017
Definition of impetuosity
Noun
  • Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
Definition of vagary
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