[1750–60; whimsical + -ity]This word is first recorded in the period 1750–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Yankee, bunker, quartz, summation, totem-ity is a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition. Other wordsthat use the affix -ity include: Latinity, civility, jollity
Examples of 'whimsicality' in a sentence
whimsicality
It's about time somebody brought some whimsicality to the discipline.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The early 1980s saw the most despotic assertion of rock-star whimsicality.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's the profound whimsicality that troubles me.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Yet his default setting on stage remains a kind of hectoringly personable whimsicality.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Each work mixes craftsmanship with a whimsicality that will continue to have wide appeal.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The whimsicality may not be to everyone's taste.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is difficult to decide whether this indifference is another instance of charming whimsicality or just unforgivable negligence.
The Times Literary Supplement (2008)
The poem foregrounds the elicitation of knowledge, yet dazzles and frustrates with its whimsicality rather than instructs.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Perhaps a better definition of eccentricity is not whimsicality for its own sake, but a lack of self-consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
With toe-curling whimsicality, he sees fit to tell us the pet names he bestows on his various sculptures.