caprice

Speech parts

1. caprice - Noun

2. caprice - Verb

3. Caprice - Proper noun

Meaning

An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.

See Capriccio.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. Oscar Wilde

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. Hermann Ebbinghaus

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather. Herman Melville

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. José Rizal

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. Alessandro Baricco

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