capriciousness

1 the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses [syn: unpredictability]

2 the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey]

English

Noun

1. The quality of being capricious.

Quotations

• 1827 Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill - Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice

  To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness.