fancifulness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancifulness
Noun
  • For the Beach Bride For the summer bride hosting a seaside soirée, Loewe’s silk fishnet dress—framed with frothy ruffles—is the perfect blend of whimsy and modernity.
    Sarah Zendejas, Vogue, 23 June 2025
  • This is a standard approach to the glassware, with a touch of whimsy thanks to the ochre (or green or pink) marble at the midpoint of the stem.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet now that substantial success seems to have given birth to a self-destructive fantasy.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
  • So what better time than now to answer some VERY IMPORTANT fantasy football questions?
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • What few at the time foresaw was that the region could be delivered to China through Trump’s sheer impetuosity, or his inability to think before posting.
    Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield.
    Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Noun
  • Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
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“Fancifulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancifulness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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