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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a sudden desire;
- Example: "he bought it on an impulse"
[syn: caprice, impulse, whim]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Caprice \Ca*price"\ (k[.a]*pr[=e]s"), n. [F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i.] 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. "Caprices of appetite." --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) See Capriccio. Syn: Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Capriccio \Ca*pric"cio\ (k[.a]*pr[=e]t"ch[-o]), n. [It. See Caprice.] 1. (Mus.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. [1913 Webster] 2. A caprice; a freak; a fancy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

caprice n 1: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "caprice": arbitrariness, bee, boutade, capriccio, capriciousness, carelessness, characteristic, conceit, contrariety, crank, crankiness, crotchet, crotchetiness, divertissement, fancifulness, fancy, fantasia, fantasticality, foible, freak, freakishness, habit, heedlessness, humor, humoresque, humorsomeness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, inconsistency, maggot, mannerism, medley, megrim, mood, moodiness, motivelessness, notion, peculiarity, perversity, petulance, potpourri, quirkiness, romance, romanza, temper, temperamentalness, thoughtlessness, trait, trick, unthoughtfulness, vagary, vein, whim, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsy