fanciful
adjective
characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance.
fancifulness
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a word derived from
fanciful.
Example Sentences
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The Parisian fancifulness of Ministry of Magic, for instance, or utilizing its Monsters brand for a dive into the arcane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Electric Dreams, while a wonderfully engaging dip into sci-fi fancifulness, is perhaps too in love with its own big ideas to truly shock us.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2017
But for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top “Wozzeck” I’ve seen.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
More often there’s a soulfulness that cuts against his fancifulness and bile.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2011
Apart from the fancifulness of his whole system, a fancifulness which is, however, perhaps more apparent than real, his conception of substance is much less objectionable than that of Descartes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
