Definition of "fancifulness" [fancifulness]

• The quality of being fanciful (noun)

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• "No one would deny that resemblances are there; it is to distinguish them and estimate their significance without yielding to fancifulness, which is the well-nigh hopeless task."
• "Good-humoured, often merry, abounding in kindness and generosity, he passed for a man as happy as he was prosperous; yet those who talked intimately with him obtained now and then a glimpse of something not quite in harmony with these characteristics, a touch of what would be called fancifulness, of uncertain spirits."
• "I think we give in comedy a kind of fancifulness and purity."