erraticismn.
/ɛˈratɪsɪz(ə)m/ Erratic tendencies.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness
giddinessa1290
lightnessc1384
gerishnessa1513
fantasticnessc1550
unstaidnessa1557
fantasticalness1583
triflingnessa1586
spleen1598
capriciousness1607
skittishness1607
humorousness1611
wavinga1628
volageness1633
arbitrariness1643
garishness1649
legerity1652
mercury1653
volatility1655
caprich1656
humoursomeness1662
hoity-toity1668
jollity1670
unaccountableness1676
freak1678
whimsya1680
featheriness1689
toysomeness1697
caprice1711
whimsicalness1715
flirtation1718
whima1721
flightiness1747
whimsicality1761
giggishness1781
fancifulness1818
hoity-toityness1820
whifflery1835
crotchetiness1837
quirkiness1870
faddishness1884
faddism1885
vagarity1886
erraticism1889
whimsiness1909
1889 E. Dowson Let. 14 July (1967) 92 I discovered the erraticism of the Sunday posts.
1907 Daily Chron. 18 Jan. 9/6 Pronounced Erraticism [in golf-play].
1920 19th Cent. July 6 In various ways his erraticism threatened actual danger to the allied cause.
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. ii. xlvi (Strange, equivocal, frivolous erraticism of his in this instance) the tripod of a recently purchased camera [etc.].
1928 T. C. Chamberlin Two Solar Families p. xxi Their courses were all-wayward. And yet their erraticisms are accompanied with spectacular brilliancy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1889- pleasure trip
- pleasure vehicle
- pleasure vessel
- pleasure visit
- pleasure voyage
- pleasure walk
- pleasure yacht
- pleasure-boating
- pleasure-bound
- pleasure-crazed
- pleasure-crowded
- pleasure-feeling
- pleasure-giving
- pleasure-greedy
- pleasure-hater
- pleasure-land
- pleasure-loving
- pleasure-mad
- pleasure-minded
- pleasure-monger
- pleasure-pain
- pleasure-plat
- pleasure-seeker
- pleasure-seeking
- pleasure-sparkling