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Etymology
Origin of whimsicality
Explanation
When you decide to do something silly or unexpected just because it's fun and interesting rather than practical, you're displaying whimsicality! This means you're embracing the playful, unpredictable side of life. Whimsicality is the art of making choices based on fun and spontaneity rather than practicality. This whimsical trait shines through in the delight of wearing a brightly colored outfit on a gray day or taking a different route home just to explore. You’ll often find whimsicality in art that mixes unusual colors and shapes or in stories where reality takes a playful twist.
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There’s a screw-it-all whimsicality coursing through the breezy, five-song set, which Thompson describes as sort of a warmup project ahead of a full-length album with heavyweight Seattle producer Jake One due early next year.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Lloyd, who described “Jerome” as abstract and layered, said he hoped audiences would see the seriousness and whimsicality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
Mixing the ironic whimsicality of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” with the premise and structure of “The Monkees,” “Conchords” was twice as delightful when it landed for being so unexpected and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Mabey puts our obsession down to its whimsicality.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
The very fact of Hearn's comparison between the art of Praxiteles and Phidias, and the grotesque whimsicality of Japanese imaginings, shows that he had not grasped the dignity and breadth of Greek culture.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
They are the newsworthy survivors of a long list of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, utterances, and doings of known people, and, so far as Miscellany is concerned, the whimsicalities and outrages of the unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
In London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
To strengthen its hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of his pranks were mere whimsicalities, innocent pleasantries that hurt no one.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
Gould, the unextenuating likenesses of “Ape,” and “Spy,” and “Max,” the 333 subtle conceits of Mr Linley Sambourne, the whimsicalities of Mr E.T.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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