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
Doctrines stand to principles, if it may be said without fancifulness, as fecundity viewed relatively to generation, though this analogy must not be strained.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
