Crossword clues for capriciousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. ``Capricious poet.''
--Shak.
``Capricious humor.''
--Hugh Miller.
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being capricious.
WordNet
n. the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses [syn: 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" [syn: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey]
Usage examples of "capriciousness".
In the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, a war made possible by what some thought was a wormhole continued to ebb antiflow according to the strengths of its combatants and the seeming capriciousness of beings who lived outside linear time.
Otherwise might she not be accused of a capriciousness quite as deplorable to consider?
His human capriciousness and curiosity had already opened several profitable avenues, such as the hexaflexagon parallel, and might do it again.