whimsy

IPA: wˈɪmsi

A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.

Examples of "whimsy" in Sentences

Perhaps it will not drown me in whimsy upon a second viewing.
My sense of whimsy is too powerful to write dark novels book after book.
It is the very definition of a “race to the bottom,” at what I call a whimsy economy.
In my own work, I'm not satisfied unless the whimsy is balanced with horror and vice versa.
But whimsy is not exactly a postmodern mode, and in Chronic City it betrays a certain aesthetic timidity.
Far too many of the stories are throw-aways (the second half of "Far Out," for example, consists of a series of overly cute exercises in whimsy that are, frankly, not worth the bother), and the order Updike has given them doesn't particularly do them credit or force us to consider him as a writer of short fiction in any new and more illuminating light.