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capriciousness
noun as in eccentricity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in flightiness
noun as in insecureness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecurity
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in instability
Strong matches
- alternation
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- wavering
Weak match
noun as in precariousness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecureness
- insecurity
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in quirkiness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in ricketiness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecurity
- instability
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in shakiness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecureness
- insecurity
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in singularity
noun as in unstableness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecurity
- instability
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- ricketiness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in unsteadiness
Strong matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecurity
- instability
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- ricketiness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Weak matches
noun as in unsureness
Weak matches
- alternation
- anxiety
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecureness
- insecurity
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unfixedness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Example Sentences
Kettle’s neighborhood demonstrates the capriciousness of the fire, which had destroyed at least two dozen homes by noon Thursday.
Winslet somehow makes whole a character whose hallmark is her capriciousness, as, under successive influences or inspirations, she adopts one persona after another.
The stakes in Ukraine could hardly be higher, which makes the capriciousness of Republicans — including many who style themselves as diehard supporters — all the more objectionable.
Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness.
Few who work in immigration law are surprised by the story; the capriciousness of America’s broken immigration system seems to be the rule, not the exception.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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