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Flightiness

noun
1.
The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.  Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy.





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"Flightiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... in which Raychow's son gets fired with the desire to turn civil engineer just when he has got a magnificent opening in life as a doctor is merely the usual flightiness of young men, who do not see where their true advantages lie—and the conduct of the men in dying, after digging a canal is normal, and modern experiences support it, for men who dig canals down in West ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... you, Louis, that it is time to have done with childishness. Clara is growing up—I won't have you encourage her in all that wild flightiness—I didn't want to have had her here at all! If she is ever to be a reasonable, conformable woman, it is high time to begin. I can't have you undoing the work of six months! when Mary might make some ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Flightiness" :   irresponsibility, whimsicality, irresponsibleness, flighty


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