Whimsy vs Eccentricity - What's the difference?
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A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim.
To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
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The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.
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(mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
Whimsy is a related term of eccentricity.
As nouns the difference between whimsy and eccentricity
is that whimsy is a quaint and fanciful idea a whim playfully odd behaviour while eccentricity is the quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.As a verb whimsy
is to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.whimsy
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Alternative forms
* whimseyNoun
(en-noun)- The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.
- Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
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Verb
- To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.
