The picturesque situation of the village and the fancifulness of its rustic fetes would often attract the notice of casual visitors.
There was formerly a melancholy fancifulness in the arrangement of these rustic offerings, that had something in it truly poetical.
The court performances knew little of regular plot or story; ordinarily avoided all reference to nature and real life; and were remarkable for the luxurious fancifulness and costly eccentricity they displayed.
Addison's paper doubtless possessed an element of fact and truth, enriched by the fancifulness peculiar to the writer.
The kind of love-making which was popular may be compared without much fancifulnessto the favourite card-game of the period, quadrille.
There is, of course, a certain fancifulness about the main idea of a man fastening bottles of dew round him in the expectation (which is justified) that the sun's heat will convert the dew into steam and raise him from the ground.
But his inveteratefancifulness led him to add: 'And that may bridge a cataract.
My fancifulness he commended as something to be turned to use in writing stories.
It is not the fancifulness of this theory that one might object to so much as its utter inadequacy to explain the facts, nay, its utter unintelligibility on the principles of those who propound it.
Apart from the fancifulness of his whole system, a fancifulness which is, however, perhaps more apparent than real, his conception of substance is much less objectionable than that of Descartes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fancifulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caprice; moodiness; petulance
