whimsy
C1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
Playfully quaint or fanciful humour and behaviour.
The shop was full of whimsy, from the teapot doorbell to the cat-shaped stairs.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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