fancifulness

noun

Definition of fancifulnessnext
as in whimsicality

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  1. whimsy
  2. fantasy
  3. impetuosity
  4. vagary
Noun
  • Kahane’s manner is, like his music, unpretentious, though shot through with dark humor and whimsy.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Fornasetti's artistry brings such a fun touch of whimsy to any home.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of whimsy
Noun
  • An old-school World War II drama, a quietly powerful Irish drama, a Christmas story and a fantasy anime arrive in movie theaters this week.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The first trailer for the fantasy adventure feature soon had audiences questioning whether or not AI was used in production.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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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