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Synonyms for "capriciousness" in English

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capriciousness:
- arbitrariness; flightiness; whimsicality; capriciousness; whimsy; whimsey; unpredictability
capricious:
- unpredictable; capricious; fickle; whimsical; changeable; wayward; incalculable; unsteady; unstable; baroque; freakish; freak; arbitrary; random; indiscriminate; high-handed; grumpy; peevish; grumbling; impulsive
- capricious

English

Detailed Synonyms for capriciousness in English

capriciousness:

capriciousness [the ~] nom

the capriciousness

– the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment ¹
the arbitrariness; the flightiness; the whimsicality; the capriciousness; the whimsy; the whimsey
– the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment ¹
- arbitrariness [the ~] nom
- flightiness [the ~] nom
  - I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory¹
- whimsicality [the ~] nom
  - I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory¹
- capriciousness [the ~] nom
- whimsy [the ~] nom
- whimsey [the ~] nom
the capriciousness

– the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses ¹
the capriciousness; the unpredictability
– the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses ¹
- capriciousness [the ~] nom
- unpredictability [the ~] nom

Alternate Synonyms for "capriciousness":

Related Definitions for "capriciousness":

the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment¹
the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses¹

capricious:

capricious adj

capricious
unpredictable; capricious; fickle; whimsical; changeable; wayward; incalculable; unsteady; unstable; baroque; freakish; freak
- unpredictable adj
- capricious adj
- fickle adj
- whimsical adj
- changeable adj
- wayward adj
- incalculable adj
- unsteady adj
- unstable adj
- baroque adj
- freakish adj
- freak adj
capricious
arbitrary; random; indiscriminate; capricious; whimsical; high-handed
- arbitrary adj
- random adj
- indiscriminate adj
- capricious adj
- whimsical adj
- high-handed adj
capricious
grumpy; capricious; peevish; grumbling
- grumpy adj
- capricious adj
- peevish adj
- grumbling adj
capricious

– determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason ¹
capricious; whimsical; impulsive
– determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason ¹
- capricious adj
  - a capricious refusal¹
  - authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious¹
- whimsical adj
  - the victim of whimsical persecutions¹
- impulsive adj
capricious

– changeable ¹
capricious; freakish
– changeable ¹
- capricious adj
  - a capricious summer breeze¹
- freakish adj
  - freakish weather¹

capricious

capricious
capricious
- capricious

Related Words for "capricious":

capriciousness, capriciously

Alternate Synonyms for "capricious":

Related Definitions for "capricious":

determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason¹
- a capricious refusal¹
- authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious¹
changeable¹
- a capricious summer breeze¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University