[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

capricious \capri"cious\ k.apri^sh"u^s, a. cf. f.
   capricieux, it. capriccioso.
   governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
   freakish; whimsical; changeable. "capricious poet." --shak.
   "capricious humor." --hugh miller.
   1913 webster

         a capricious partiality to the romish practices.
                                                  --hallam.

   syn: freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
        fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
        inconstant; arbitrary. -- capri"ciously, adv. --
        capri"ciousness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
capri"ciously capri"ciousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

capriciousness
     n 1: the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
          syn: unpredictability
     2: 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" syn: flightiness,
         arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey
see also:
unpredictability flightiness arbitrariness whimsicality whimsy whimsey 

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