whim

n.

1. A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy.
2. Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by whim.
3. A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.

[Short for whim-wham, fanciful object.]

noun

An impulsive, often illogical turn of mind: bee, boutade, caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, humor, impulse, megrim, notion, vagary, whimsy. Idioms: bee in one's bonnet. See thoughts.

n

Definition: sudden idea
Antonyms: plan

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IN BRIEF: An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.

Plant on a whim. Lay the footpath where your heart says it should be. Change things because you feel like it. Garden for the love of it. — Lindley Karstens.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lune, grille, indfald, hejseapparat

Nederlands (Dutch)
gril, bevlieging

Français (French)
n. - caprice, coup de tête

Deutsch (German)
n. - Laune, Launenhaftigkeit, Fördermaschine

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καπρίτσιο, ιδιοτροπία, παραξενιά

Italiano (Italian)
capriccio, slancio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - capricho (m)

Русский (Russian)
прихоть, непостоянство, конный привод, жаждать

Español (Spanish)
n. - capricho, antojo, malacate

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - nyck

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
一时的兴致, 怪念头, 反覆无常

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 一時的興致, 怪念頭, 反覆無常

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 변덕스러운 마음, 일시적인 생각

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 気まぐれ, 移り気, 巻揚げ機
v. - 気まぐれに欲する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نزوة, هوى, رحويه المناجم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גחמה, שיגעון, בולמוס, קפריזה‬

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