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fancifulness

NOUN
whimsy
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The Parisian fancifulness of Ministry of Magic, for instance, or utilizing its Monsters brand for a dive into the arcane.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2025

Electric Dreams, while a wonderfully engaging dip into sci-fi fancifulness, is perhaps too in love with its own big ideas to truly shock us.

From The Guardian Nov. 7, 2017

But for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top “Wozzeck” I’ve seen.

From New York Times Aug. 9, 2017

More often there’s a soulfulness that cuts against his fancifulness and bile.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2011

But apart from these examples and some others which are found here and there in the pompous catalogue of the actors of Bruges, everybody used great liberty and much fancifulness in the choice of habiliments.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.




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