Vagarity vs Vagary - What's the difference?
vagarity | vagary | Derived terms |
(rare) The character or state of being vagarious; capriciousness; irregularity.
(rare) Vagary.
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
Vagary is a derived term of vagarity.
As nouns the difference between vagarity and vagary
is that vagarity is the character or state of being vagarious; capriciousness; irregularity while vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.vagarity
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(vagarities)References
* * the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (lists it as "rare" with one cite from 1886)vagary
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(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
