Antonyms for caprice
kəˈpriscaprice

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1. caprice

   An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   belief, conceit, conception, desire, fancy, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

   Preposition:
   To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

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1. caprice, impulse, whimnoun

   a sudden desire

   "he bought it on an impulse"

   Synonyms:
   pulsing, whim, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, pulse, notion, neural impulse, whimsey, impulse, pulsation, whimsy

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1. capricenoun

   Synonyms:
   fancy, whim, notion, freak, vagary, crotchet, quirk, whimsey, fickleness

How to use caprice in a sentence?

1. William Ernest Hocking:

   Art is life, plus caprice.

2. Carlos Ghosn:

   The board does not decide (on pay) on the basis of caprice, it is the board acting on your delegated authority that decides who runs the company and the remuneration that matches their efforts and talents.

3. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

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

4. George Washington:

   The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

5. Greg Abbott:

   We are succumbing to the caprice of man that our Founders fought to escape, the cure to these problems will not come from Washington, D.C. Instead, the states must lead the way.

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