Synonyms for capriciousness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh-prish-uhs, -pree-shuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈprɪʃ əs, -ˈpri ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for capriciousness
- aberration
- abnormality
- airheadedness
- alternation
- anomaly
- caprice
- capriciousness
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- dizziness
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- flippancy
- fluidity
- foible
- frailty
- freakishness
- frivolity
- giddiness
- hereticism
- hesitation
- idiocrasy
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insecureness
- instability
- irregularity
- irresolution
- kink
- levity
- lightness
- mercurialness
- mutability
- nonconformity
- oddity
- oddness
- oscillation
- outlandishness
- pliancy
- precariousness
- queerness
- quirk
- quirkiness
- restlessness
- ricketiness
- shakiness
- singularity
- strangeness
- transience
- unconventionality
- unfixedness
- unorthodoxness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- unsureness
- vacillation
- variability
- wavering
- waywardness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
- wobbliness
Définition of capriciousness
Origin :- 1590s, from French capricieux "whimsical" (16c.), from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio (see caprice). Related: Capriciously; capriciousness.
- As in instability : noun imbalance, inconstancy
- As in insecureness : noun instability
- As in precariousness : noun instability
- As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
- As in ricketiness : noun unstableness
- As in shakiness : noun instability
- As in singularity : noun eccentricity
- As in unstableness : noun unsteadiness
- As in unsteadiness : noun unstableness
- As in unsureness : noun instability
- As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
- As in flightiness : noun irresponsibility
- The capriciousness of love is also derived by him from an attachment to some god in a former world.
- Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
- Nor is this capriciousness exclusively the attribute of the poetic Muse.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 » by Various
- My capriciousness had exhausted his patience, and he frankly said that he washed his hands of the "case."
- Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt
- It was the time to alarm him by coldness, by capriciousness.
- Extract from : « The Grain Of Dust » by David Graham Phillips
- “Capriciousness, natural in her condition,” commented all, even Capitan Tiago.
- Extract from : « The Social Cancer » by Jos Rizal
- These gave the horse the reputation of capriciousness and unreliability.
- Extract from : « Clever Hans » by Oskar Pfungst
- And it was on this account and for Norman's sake that Lois put up with her capriciousness.
- Extract from : « Gordon Keith » by Thomas Nelson Page
- The capriciousness of the resolution startled me; but I approved whole-heartedly.
- Extract from : « Jaffery » by William J. Locke
- The seriousness of the situation had extinguished in the girl all coquetry and capriciousness.
- Extract from : « Atlantis » by Gerhart Hauptmann
- Wit, capriciousness, generosity, emotion—you have said it—they were all there.
- Extract from : « The Cardinal's Snuff-Box » by Henry Harland
Antonyms for capriciousness
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