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Vagary vs Whimsey - What's the difference?

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Vagary is a related term of whimsey.


As nouns the difference between vagary and whimsey

is that vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action while whimsey is .

vagary

English

Noun

(vagaries)
  • An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
  • * 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
    • 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.
  • An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
  • * 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
    • And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

    Derived terms

    * vagarity * vagarious

    See also

    * vaguery

    whimsey

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • * Bancroft
    • mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth