caprice synonyms

caprice

n.

whim, vagary, notion, fancy, impulse, eccentricity, crotchet, quirk, freak, whimsy, humor, maggot, megrim, capriciousness, fancifulness, whimsicality, flightiness, fickleness, changeableness; see also quirk.

caprice refers to a sudden, impulsive, apparently unmotivated turn of mind or emotion discharged at the caprice of a foreman; whim and whimsy can both refer to an idle, quaint, or curious notion, but whim more often suggests willfulness and whimsy fancifulness pursuing a whim, he wrote a poem full of whimsy; vagary suggests a highly unusual or extravagant notion the vagaries of fashion in women's clothes; crotchet implies great eccentricity and connotes stubbornness in opposition to prevailing thought, usually on some insignificant point his crotchets concerning diet

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