capriciousness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: capriciousness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for capriciousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
capriciousness n the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses Synonym(s): capriciousness, unpredictability 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" Synonym(s): flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Capricious \Capri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. capricleux, It. capriccioso.] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. [bd]Capricious poet.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Capricious humor.[b8] --Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. --Hallam. Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Capri"ciously}, adv. -- {Capri"cious*ness}, n.