n. | 1. | A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. |
2. | (Mining) A whim. | |
v. t. | 1. | To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze. |
Noun | 1. | whimsey - an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" |
2. | whimsey - the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" |