Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being capricious.
To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness.
1827, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
nounthe trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Spanish caprichosidad
- caprichosidadTranslations
Swedish nyckfullhet, oberäknelighet
- nyckfullhetTranslations
- oberäknelighetTranslations
- oförutsägbarhetTranslations
Turkish hercailik
- hercailikTranslations
Cite this entry
capriciousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capriciousness
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