[noun] an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey
[noun] the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" Synonyms: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsey, capriciousness