whimsicality

whimsical | American Dictionary

whimsical
adjective
us/ˈhwɪm·zɪ·kəl, ˈwɪm-/
unusual and using imagination:
The songs have a whimsical charm.
Whimsical also describes actions that change suddenly and for no obvious reason:
Unfortunately, his decisions are often whimsical.

Examples of whimsical

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Writers have characterised some relationships as arbitrary, whimsical, awkward or confusing, yet celebrated the carefully studied asymmetry of others as an artistic tour-de-force.
The critical point to be stressed is that all these qualities are neither arbitrary nor whimsical.
Where the old anthropologists had expected an orderly procession upward to man's highest type, he found a whimsical rabble.
But we cannot divorce the principle of nonmaleficence from evidential requirements without legitimating the most whimsical decisions imaginable.
In a discipline that celebrates bluntness, practicality and monomania, he was cursed with a whimsical imagination.
Frivolous, whimsical choices may harm people directly and indirectly by weakening common values that secure them with a sense of togetherness, essential for human well-being.
It is a paradox of this book that all its poetic evocations and its whimsical style are employed to describe its author's inarticulateness.
His 'introduction' is a swirling kaleidoscope of bright and glaring sound soon stalled by that whimsical contrabass clarinet - supported by equally whimsical percussion.
Forgiving drunkards therefore was not a whimsical judicial practice that reflected the gap between legal texts and reality.
Consider the property of having a whimsical sense of humour.
A whimsical hypothetical dialogue between the spirits of science and law, written by a legal scholar, exemplifies these distinctions.
Suggestions ranging from the practical to the whimsical illustrate some possibilities for injecting the essence of these experiences into a more technological world, thereby enriching it.
Universal themes are ultimately present, but they are treated one at a time, in whimsical morsels.
Thus redecorating becomes not a whimsical project, not an end in itself, but a means to an end, for a middle-class woman's identity depends upon her maintaining a proper drawing-room.
I argue in this article that (applied) linguistics should assign a far less central place to this whimsical notion of "word" than has been done up to now.
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