capriciousness

capricious | American Dictionary

capricious
adjective
us/kəˈprɪʃ·əs, -ˈpri·ʃəs/
likely to change, or reacting to a sudden desire or new idea:
We have had very capricious weather lately.

Examples of capricious

capricious
The ideal of being independent from the capricious events of the world was obviously of great importance to a wide variety of early modern thinkers.
Typically, when faced with apparently capricious rules, researchers seek ways to express the changes as natural looking processes, given some theoretical model.
Bankrupting one taxpayer to pay the costs of another could be seen as truly capricious.
She too was a temptress who could beguile and terrify, and she was very capricious.
This then breaks down into a march, which is more regular (and slightly pompous) and sometimes pitted against the capricious material.
One is the capricious nature of the oscillations.
The popular profile of ballooning as a capricious and 'unscientific' business has a long history.
In her new milieu, this child is, in reality, considered to be a captive, subject to the capricious demands of her new environment.
It is therefore a fragile and potentially capricious relationship.
They are representative in showing the capricious nature of the oscillations.
An important implication of this meritocratic view was that leaders must be insulated from the capricious and morally corrosive practices of parliamentary politics.
The resulting arrangement of care-giving may look haphazard or capricious, but the underlying principle of reciprocity is clear.
The image of recusant martyrdom was perhaps more capricious and conflicting than the author here acknowledges.
If the origin and evolution of life were an unpredictable oddity, based on quirks of contingency, astrobiology would be fascinating but capricious.
The capricious powers of hereditary monarchs have gone.
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