caprice

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. fancy, humor (See changeableness).

II

(Roget's IV) n.

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

Syn.- 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 ]

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

whim, impulse, notion, vagary, whimsy, eccentricity, fancy, fickleness.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun An impulsive, often illogical turn of mind: bee, boutade, conceit, fancy, freak, humor, impulse, megrim, notion, vagary, whim, whimsy. Idiom: bee in one's bonnet. See THOUGHTS.