[f. prec. adj. + -ITY.] The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness; oddity, fantasticalness. Also with a and pl.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xxxiii. The whimsicality of my father’s brain was far from having the whole honour of this.
1800. Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, ii. Lady Delacour … laughed affectedly at her own whimsicalities.
1844. Hood (title), Whimsicalities, a periodical gathering.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiogr., vi. (1860), 117. Lewis was a comedian of the rarest order, for he combined whimsicality with elegance, and levity with heart.
1898. R. Hichens, Londoners, ii. The expression of curious whimsicality that stole into her face.
