whimsicality

Other forms of whimsicality

plural

whimsicalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whimsicality

What does whimsicality mean?

whimsicality means "the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whimsicality?

whimsicality has 5 syllables: whim-si-ca-li-ty. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for whimsicality?

Close synonyms include flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whimsicality a common word?

whimsicality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.